Word: surrealistically
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...African sculpture and suddenly finds himself confronting an 18th century ship's figurehead standing next to an abstraction by Joan Mitchell. Here and there a Charles Burchfield or an Andrew Wyeth appears; there is a convulsed semi-abstraction by Larry Rivers, a grisly head by Leon Golub, a surrealist landscape by Kay Sage, a calligraphic work by Mathieu and splashy one by Adolph Gottlieb. An executive vice president who insisted that all he wanted was a print of the port of New York has-and highly prizes-a fiery black and red abstraction by Jack Youngerman...
...Angeles' International Airport resembles a surrealist skid row, composed of a group of crumbling temporary buildings painted in sick and faded shades of pink and green. Gum wrappers and blobs of melting ice cream litter the floors; jammed in the corridors are scales, fortunetelling machines, knickknack shops, gum dispensers, rusty refuse baskets, and hundreds of blinking neon lights. To get to and from their planes, passengers must walk nearly a quarter of a mile. This week Los Angeles' embarrassment over this disgrace came to an end as Vice President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the city...
...began as a serious if wild attempt to break new ground tended to deteriorate into mere sensationalism, and Ernst moved on to surrealism. Though he formally broke with the movement in 1938 in protest against the highhandedness of its self-appointed leader, Poet Andre Breton, he has remained a surrealist in spirit ever since...
Nickelodeon Sentiment. Although In the Swamp is surrealist in technique, with enigmatic central characters who are symbolic rather than human, the minor figures-rogues all-are marvelously funny and thoroughly human. From this point on, Brecht's plays fork in these two directions: the symbolic-didactic and the raffish-human...
...turn out to be landscapes in which windows, doors, bits of floor, ship or building fill up the foreground while behind them stretches an endless sea. a distant city, a darkened wasteland. His titles-Death and Transfiguration, Edge of a City, At the Border-are slapped on afterward. The surrealist finds themes in the subconscious; Hultberg gets his ideas "from the preconscious-the half-remembered, half-conscious things you see just before you fall asleep or wake...