Word: surrealistes
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Instead, Tàpies and others contributed to a rump show of modern Spanish work now on at Rimini, in Italy. And the master Picasso, just to prove that he cannot be brought into camp, specifically chose for the Rimini show a 1937 surrealist condemnation of Spanish fascism called Dreams and Lies of Franco...
...morning the dead in the streets glittered. Under the cloud and over the dead raged one of World War II's grimmest street battles. By the time the Red Army had cleared the city's 4,500 blocks of their stubborn German defenders, Budapest was a surrealist's nightmare: gutted carapaces of tanks clogged the streets; twisted streetcar rails poked at the sky; shop windows were stocked with uniformed corpses. Budapest had been liberated...
...Benedictus, who had a solidly scandalous success with a first novel, The Fourth of June, about the seamier side of public-school life, unfolds his story with brevity and considerable wit. He has a fine comic flair for translating the mechanized absurdities of big-city life into visions of surrealist fantasy. But in the last chapters of You're a Big Boy Now, his story loses its fine farcical edge, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking his hero seriously. He would have done well to keep in mind a famous aphorism observed by Evelyn Waugh: "Never apologize...
MARISOL-Stable, 33 East 74th. Marisol's wooden oddballs have been alternately described as folk art, surrealist, Pop, even "poetic dislocations." Actually, these twelve new ones are simply the wackiest, wittiest mélanges on view anywhere. Through March...
While the exhibition does not pretend to be a comprehensive survey of Surrealist and Fantastic art, virtually every important Surrealist artist is included. Arp, Chagall, de Chirico, Dali, Ernst, Klee, and Miro are each represented by a number of paintings; several of these works are well-known and most are characteristic of each artist's particular development...