surrealists

In many respects these surrealists were similar to Lewis Carroll's central character -- Alice -- in his famous nonsensical novels.

Bill Bush: Memento Mori: This Artweek.LA (January 23, 2012) Bill Bush 2012

This landmark exhibition highlights the significant role of women surrealists who were active in these two countries, and the effects of geography and gender on the movement.

Bill Bush: Memento Mori: This Artweek.LA (January 23, 2012) Bill Bush 2012

The surrealists loved this passage (“The father of Surrealism was Dada; its mother was an arcade,” commented the social philosopher Walter Benjamin, who adored the arcades so much he wrote a thousand-plus-page book about them), perhaps because it also hosts the creepy Musée Grévin, a Victorian holdover still welcoming people fascinated with the greasy gleam of wax museums.

Paris Under Glass 2010

In many respects these surrealists were similar to Lewis Carroll's central character -- Alice -- in his famous nonsensical novels.

Bill Bush: Memento Mori: This Artweek.LA (January 23, 2012) Bill Bush 2012

The maddest of existentialists, one of the great surrealists of our time, the king of all he sees, Ali had never before appeared so vulnerable and fragile, so pitiably unmajestic, so far from the universe he claims as his alone.

Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011

"It's a phenomenon similar to the automatic dictation of the surrealists except that here the flow of consciousness tends to be coherent: a rational enunciation of meanings."

Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

His anti-art provocations, his rages against the bourgeoisie and the wilder flights of his rhetoric into zones of rapturously menacing nonsense were all straight from the Parisian surrealists of the 1920s and their forebears.

In Praise Of the Gross Lee Sandlin 2012

The pages that follow are filled with legendary men, the surrealists and cubists and dadaists who shaped bohemian Paris, all of them presented here fighting and eating and jostling to make a living, as well as making love, just like Kiki herself.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

What is known around the world about Latin American art, she says—the Mexican Muralists like Diego Rivera, the surrealists like Roberto Matta, the overappreciated drama queen Frida Kahlo, and a few contemporary stars like Gabriel Orozco—is shallow and artificially dictated by the art market.

Derivative Works No More Judith H. Dobrzynski 2012

The maddest of existentialists, one of the great surrealists of our time, the king of all he sees, Ali had never before appeared so vulnerable and fragile, so pitiably unmajestic, so far from the universe he claims as his alone.

Jan Herman: Writers on Fighters Jan Herman 2011