Word: surrealistically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body? It is to such questions that Bourgeois's sculpture turns itself, not al ways successfully, but with a striking consistency and intensity. Some of it looks "unheroic," deficient in fully realized form, even incoherent: but these are by products of her effort to describe, by surrealist means, experiences that are automatically left out of heroic art. For such operations, Bourgeois may be the wrong surname, but it is good to see such an artist getting her due at last...
...This compilation of syndicated columns is refreshingly freed from its predecessor's videoese syntax and pictorial tricks. Here the humor is literate, affecting and familiar. Rooney rolls up his sleeves, hits his 1920-model Underwood, and writes about his native suburbia with the exhilaration of a button-down surrealist...
...Surrealist Work by Julian Londa. At Harvard University March 14-28 Tichnor Launge in Boylston Hall Hours...
...Greco's paintings, simultaneously vast and womblike, in his work after 1947. Because of his aspirations to sublimity, it is difficult to assimilate Pollock-as some authorities have wished to do-to the traditions of the School of Paris. The French painter he most admired, the surrealist André Masson, was set against the pre-eminently French virtues of lucidity, calm and mésure. An extraordinary number of strands are braided and involved in Pollock's work, from Indian sand painting to the theory of Jungian archetypes, from Zen calligraphy to El Greco, from American jazz...
...draw like a child. It was one of the master's few unoriginal remarks Virginia Woolf, rereading Nicholas Nickleby in 1939, noted."Dickens owes his astonishing power to make characters alive to the fact that he saw them as a child sees them." And in his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton declared, "Childhood is the nearest to true life...