Word: surreality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gothic mystery, savage modern satire, heroic epic-Castle Keep interweaves all three to create a surreal small masterpiece about the horrors and grim humors...
...MAGIC OF REALISM-Banfer, 23 East 67th. In egg tempera and acrylic polymer, in still lifes of snails and cockscombs and sultry human dramas, 18 slightly surreal realists change perspective and weave soells always uneasy, often unearthly. Through...
ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco could have thought possible." With fantasy and pathos rather than bitterness, Bearden turns out blues to hang on a wall. From cutouts - crooked nose, laughing eyes, tearstained cheek - he collages surreal cityscapes of Negro life, then photographs and enlarges them, for the liveliest views on the avenue. Through...
...seek new understanding of light and water. But the essential music of Venice, if not its counterpoint-sun-stippled plazas, majestic palaces, bustling, brightly clad people-always escaped them. In later life, painting steadily until his death in 1768, Canaletto essayed fanciful variations on his theme with almost surreal capriccios, whose brooding ruins bespoke the ancient grandeur that dissolved in carnival...
...surreal quality of the Congo's creeping rebellion often obscures the fact that slowly but surely the country is slipping out of the government's grasp. In the seven months since the current wave of revolt began in Kwilu province, various rebel bands-some Communist-backed, others leaderless but just as vicious-have captured fully a third of the nation. Last week the tide lapped at, and then inundated, the biggest rebel prize yet. Strategic Stanleyville, the Congo's third largest city and the old stronghold of its first Premier, Leftist Patrice Lumumba, fell after two days...