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Giacometti, by contrast, did not work in iron at all; every object by him in this show is cast bronze. He is included, presumably, because of his relations to Picasso through the Surrealist figure, because of his influence on Smith and because of the linearity of his style -- an obsessive thinning out of sculptural mass that is nevertheless modeled in a wholly traditional way on an armature, and never welded. It's true that Giacometti tended increasingly to think of sculpture as a means of connecting points in space, rather than of setting volume imposingly before...
After academic studies in Havana, he went to Europe in 1923; presently he came to know Picasso (whose work strongly influenced him) and the Surrealists, who took him in as a member of their group. Another black painter who knew him in Paris claimed that Lam "forged the link between African sensibility and European tradition," and he wasn't exaggerating much. But in 1941, correctly surmising that a black Surrealist who had fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War would have a short future under the Nazi occupation of France, Lam returned to Cuba; from there...
...avant-garde of the '40s, but to see his place one needs to remember that the New York School of the '40s was not the exclusive pantheon of half a dozen Abstract Expressionist heroes that later critics and dealers made it seem. It was open and eclectic, perfused with Surrealist influence and much more curious about other cultures -- particularly those of Latin America -- than it would be 25 years later. Lam had a strong common interest with American painters who became his friends, such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell: namely a fascination with totemism and the imagery...
...Bill Murray) visits Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home of the Groundhog Day Festival, and finds himself forced to relive that particular Feb. 2 over and over, maybe forever -- or at least until he gets it right. You might describe the film as Son of The Exterminating Angel (1963), Luis Bunuel's surrealist movie prank about a dinner party no one can leave. But, not to worry, it ends up as It's a Wonderful Life. And it has Murray, who, ever since his debut on Saturday Night Live in 1976, has been defining the would-be-hip U.S. male -- the frat fellow...
...seated at a restaurant counter with their backs to the camera, apparantly eating or drinking. Their heads hidden in brutal shadow, their bodies appear in stark relief against the shade inside the restaurant, strangely lifeless. The startling image, with its oddly posed figures, echoes the Surrealist attempts to defamiliarize the human body and confuse the boundary between shadow and reality. But, in juxtaposing images of plenty and those of descending doom, "Los Agachados" also resonates with ancient Indian ideas about the continuity, coexistence and interdependence of life and death...