Tag: Surrealism

  • A Painter of Sorrows

    Chagall: Love, War and Exile The Jewish Museum, New York 15 September 2013 – 2 February 2014

  • The origins on paper

    When art patron Peggy Guggenheim met Robert Motherwell in the 1940s, she encouraged the young artist to work with collage and also organised his first solo exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. This story is…

  • Book review: The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History

    Bernard Smith Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2007 According to the Australian art historian Bernard Smith, The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History, is ‘probably his last book’. At 91, he is probably right. What is certain is…

  • Breaking the Rules – The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937

    Based on the British Library’s huge collection of manuscripts, sound recordings and all manner of things printed, Breaking the Rules tries to cram 40 years of pan-European avant-garde publishing into the Pearson Gallery. The result invites both delight and frustration…

  • The Apparitions of a Surrealist Eye: Dalí & Film

    Salvador Dalí’s involvement with film was profound and critical to his artistic sensibilities