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Tag Archives: Surrealism
JEAN COCTEAU: AN ARTIST NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN
During the German Occupation of Paris, Jean Cocteau, assisted by his friend, Jean Marais, shook off a decade-long oblivion due to opium addiction, and wrote the script for Robert Bresson’s film, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1944/1945).
PARIS, OF COURSE (First of a series on Paris, and other great cities)
Rue de l,arbre sec (Street of the Dry Tree), the site of the gallows in medieval Paris, and also the site of the once-glorious Art Nouveau department store, La Samaritaine, now shut down (just off the right foreground of the … Continue reading
FRIDA KAHLO
Diego Rivera could be termed a happy chef, mixing many gifts of nature and history into revealing and joyous adventures of taste and travel (hard or otherwise). His far less happy partner, Frida Kahlo, was something else. And yet, you … Continue reading
PICASSO
The name, Picasso, seems to rush us into the imagery of painting, having zipped right past his output of sculpture.
SURREALIST GRAPHICS by LUCIEN BOUCHER
Surrealism stems from French sensibility, that special carnal fastidiousness to be discerned in Impressionist painting (and so many other modern forms of art— Fauve, Cubist and post-Impressionist), Proust, Absurdist theatre and a gamut of design ranging from architecture to cuisine. … Continue reading
A LITTLE STORY
Here’s a little story that begins in what seems to be firmly fixed in the heart of the performing arts—specifically dance—but actually extends to contemporary fiction, music and the whole galaxy of Surrealism, including Surrealist graphics. In 1986, the great … Continue reading
Posted in Fine Art, Performance Art, Poster&Graphic Art, Surrealist Posters&Graphics
Tagged contemporary dance, contemporary fiction, In the Country of Last Things, In the Upper Room, Jacques Demy, modern ballet, Paul Auster, Philip Glass, Surrealism, Surrealist graphics, The Book of Illusions, Twyla Tharp
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