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...forget it, is too big to fit in the museum, so it covers the four-story facade of the Galeria Kaufhof on Frankfurt's main shopping drag. Inside, there are some 200 artworks - photos of early 20th century shop fronts by Walker Evans, Eug?ne Atget and Berenice Abbott, surrealist mannequin displays and Fluxus conceptual art reconstructions. The installations are the most eye-catching. For the first time since it was shown in New York in 1964, American Supermarket, a collaboration by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others, has been remade, complete with meat, cheese and fruit counters, neon signs...
Frida Kahlo, the Mexican surrealist-communist painter, lived her life in ghastly pain, the result of a crippling accident. But pain, though knowable, is also indescribable. Alas, Frida is one of those chipper biopics in which the heroine (Salma Hayek) cheerfully endures her suffering while incidentally creating her art and carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida...
...group portrait Max Ernst painted of his Surrealist mates in 1922, Rendezvous Among Friends, shows all l7 of them then - as well as Renaissance master Raphael in a cameo appearance - posing in suits and ties beneath some peaks of the Tyrolean Alps. Writer-artist Breton poses in the middle with his arm upraised to show who's boss. It was Breton who cracked the whip, writing in 1928: "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will...
...initial period of automatism, which by means of rubbings, collages, and trance-like binges of "automatic writing" sought to capture pure, unconscious impulse. In 1923 Ernst took time off from automatism to paint his big surprising "lost mural," At The First Clear Word, on two adjoining bedroom walls of Surrealist poet Paul Eluard's house outside Paris. The show reunites the long-separated panels for the first time, to tantalize us with apparent riddles about the ménage à trois in which Ernst and Eluard were engaged with Eluard's beautiful wife Gala. One panel depicts a hand clutching...
...works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part of the psyche out there. Furthermore these artists' display broader graphical influences than most American cartoonists. Americans tend to use other cartoonists for inspiration, but these works put themselves in the context of the larger modernist and surrealist fine art movements. Only a few read like "regular" comix...