Word: surrealistes
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...belong to a mousy little spinster who would never do anything that would cause talk among the neighbors. But the house on the outskirts of Brussels belongs to Paul Delvaux, a grey-maned, sad-faced man of 65 who, next to René Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands a row of skulls, and near them are several sets of toy trains. This is Paul Delvaux's world...
...Land sacred earth; and in the 17th century, their cemeteries were where the rich and the mighty were buried. The bodies are there today, preserved by some forgotten process, still wearing velvet britches and silver buckles. "Some times they look almost alive," says Biddle. "Sometimes the decomposition is almost surrealist with Rembrandtesque light, and sometimes they look like giant insects with their mouths gaping open." Ghoulish as they are, they become in Biddle's hands enormously affecting-creatures caught in a no man's land, having been rejected by life and not yet accepted by death...
...world today." says Pop Art Collector Philip Johnson, whose architecture is the essence of elegance. ''It is a very sharp reaction against abstract expressionism, and as such, it is a great relief to see, because we recognize the pretty girls and the pop bottles." But Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, who belonged to the Dada movement, hoots down such paeans: "It is just some feeble bubbles of flat Coca-Cola, which I consider less than interesting and rather...
...years since these exercises were performed, the avant-garde seems to have gone somewhere else. Surrealist painting seems to have joined the art nouveau lamp shade in the attic; surrealism in writing has fared worse. Sample Miller...
...Opera Company (NBC. 2-3 p.m.). The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's surrealist opera Labyrinth...