Agar, who died in 1991, is due a revision: her strong sense of irony and lyrical use of colour undermine the historical view of her simply
as a surrealist.
-- Louise Bourgeois: After many years of working quite privately in New York, Bourgeois was rediscovered and quickly canonized
as a surrealist feminist visionary.
These works take their cues from interior design and domestic spaces as well
as surrealist strategies of accessing internal states, such as through automatic drawing.
His early paintings were oriented to social themes and contain expressionist as well
as surrealist overtones.
She ranks with Joseph Cornell
as a surrealist of everyday life who weaves found stuff into poetry.
Using hard black lines, bright flat color and organic and geometric shapes, her style is often described
as surrealist cartooning, or comic abstraction.
Lucas» works also recall the knotted bodies of Orlan from the 1960s and the dolls of Hans Bellmer and Oskar Kokoschka, as well
as the surrealist figures of Pablo Picasso, Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois, Cycladic torsos and archaeological artefacts.
Often described
as a surrealist, the artist actually fuses naturalistic and surrealistic approach in her images of heads that seem to be dissipating like smoke, and doubled, fragmented faces, as if reflected in a broken mirror.
Pratuang Emjaroen's painting Red Morning Glory and Rotten Gun casts Thailand's tumultuous political climate
as a surrealist nightmare.
The same sensibility at work in my sculpture is here, too: a love of the serio - comic, a delight with pattern and intense color, as well
as a surrealist hybridity that happily mixes sources and categories.
In 1953 she got divorced from her second husband, left her job as professional fashion and accessories editor for Vogue behind, and moved to Mexico, where she began her career
as surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism.
Tàpies started
as a surrealist painter, and his early works were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
A plaster model of a Venus flytrap from 1833, 10 times larger than life, looks like nothing so much
as a surrealist object.
One of Eric Fischl's evocative and mysterious solar etchings, Untitled (2 figures) from 2006 is included, as well
as a surrealist sea - scape from Leif Hope, the driving force behind the Game today and the one who conceived the exhibition.
Between Me and The Night is described
as a surrealist action adventure game; and that it certainly is.
Think of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin
as a surrealist who loves old movies but finds them funny.
Aronofsky lets chaos reign inside his House, with a powerful stage flow that doesn't stop showing madness - and so it works fine
as a surrealist thriller.
What You Need To Know: Michel Gondry «s films are generally regarded
as surrealist and wacky, but this discounts the realism and community concerns found in documentaries and docu - dramas like «The Thorn In The Heart,» «The We And The I,» and even the second half of «Be Kind Rewind.»
«Defended by the left - wing press as well
as the Surrealists, L'Âge d'or became a cause célèbre, but Buñuel was not there to soak up the attention: he was in Hollywood.»
As noted by the late critic and historian Franz Roh — who coined the term «Magic Realism» in an essay in 1925 — artists are capable of acknowledging and expressing the idea that «the mystery does not descend to the represented world»
as Surrealists would later contend, but rather «hides and palpitates behind it.»
It would try to find the freest way of being itself, just
as the Surrealists or the Abstract Expressionist did.
Raphael's sketches may have been meant increasingly to guide workshop productions of his Madonnas, but Sol LeWitt's wall drawings require execution by the hands of others, just
as Surrealists had entrusted their imagery to the unconscious.
As well
as the Surrealists, they own works on paper by U.S. abstract expressionists including Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.
Just
as the surrealists invented the technique in the early twentieth century as a playful and ultimately enriching exercise, the present drawings combine the two artists» distinct styles in a revealing and often seamless fashion.
Not exact matches
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might
as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «
surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is
as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious
as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.
Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern —
as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.
In McLaren Vale, winemaker Chester Osborn has installed husband - and - wife team Brendan Wessels and Lindsay Durr in the kitchen of his
surrealist D'Arenberg Cube, whose eight - course degustation menus are
as inventive and playful
as their surroundings.
After an hour of predictably sophomoric antics involving foulmouthed kids, compulsively self - pleasuring canines and the rampant objectification of women, Click turns into a
surrealist death dream in which Sandler's masochistic impulses flower onscreen
as never before.
The Dude and Sobchak begin
as caricatures too, but they're allowed to grow into something deeper, if only because the humanist economy of the Coens»
surrealist vaudeville allows for a couple of human beings within the tapestry of freaks.
More stylish and creative than its exploitative American - release title implies (the original Mexican title translates
as Mansion of Madness), this is an interesting
surrealist spin on the Poe tale from the producers of Jodorowsky's El Topo.
Watch the terminal point of this dread experiment
as Wiseau rages through a
surrealist reading of the famous «why so serious?»
This is
as much a druggy wild goose chase
as The Big Lebowski, but he opts not to make being stoned an extravagantly
surrealist experience.
He's quite
surrealist here, from what I recall, having Juliet retreat into fantastic reveries to escape her life with an unfaithful husband,
as opposed to La Strada «s distinct tendency toward neo-realism.
Arriving from the postwar America experimental film movement
as a sort of answer, at least initially, to Buñuel and the
surrealists, Anger's artifice and... Read more»
He's not a visual
surrealist so much
as an emotional
surrealist, his stories taking you into bizarre worlds and twisted circumstances.
Geoffrey Rush shows his range
as one of the world's finest character actors in the role of Alberto Giacometti (1906 - 1966), the
surrealist and sculptor.
National Lampoon was one such force, spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1970 and emerging over the course of the decade
as a raunchy (naked women appeared frequently in its pages),
surrealist (fake ads were one of National Lampoon's specialties), boundary - pushing (the magazine's most famous cover reads, «If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog») leader in American satire.
In a film year marked by gothic imagery, twisted interpretations of classic myth, and send - ups of modern art, who'd expect all three from the sequel to John Wick, the
surrealist action movie par excellence that cast Keanu Reeves
as a hit man out to avenge his dog?
The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such
as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a
surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.
Susan Meiselas captures a
surrealist master and his shadowy heroine
as they set out on the Lost Highway
Upcoming film series will highlight Figueroa's work with Spanish
surrealist Luis Buñuel, the Hollywood films that the cinematographer shot over his 50 - year career for directors such
as John Huston and John Ford, the films of the early 1930s that spurred Figueroa, and contemporary Mexican filmmakers whose work invokes Figueroa's legacy.
These included the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and Walt Disney,
as well
surrealist painting, the macabre literary works of Edgar Allen Poe and the delirious writings of Thomas De Quincy.
such
as Catalan
surrealist painter Salvador Dalí adopting them
as pets.
Italy's film giallo — garish, bloody, and melodramatic — says
as much about the country
as its understated neo-realistic or high - brow
surrealist works.
Hotel Napoleon Paris made its grand debut
as an opulent addition to the Parisian skyline in the 1920s, amid the city's influx of literary and artistic expatriates, including «The Lost Generation» writers, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, artistic icons Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, and famed
surrealist thinker André Breton.
As you'd expect, the house and gardens are filled with Dali's surrealist artworks, such as a 7 - foot - tall bear who guards the front gate, and a number of large eggs, which sit in the garden and on the terrac
As you'd expect, the house and gardens are filled with Dali's
surrealist artworks, such
as a 7 - foot - tall bear who guards the front gate, and a number of large eggs, which sit in the garden and on the terrac
as a 7 - foot - tall bear who guards the front gate, and a number of large eggs, which sit in the garden and on the terrace.
This remarkable foundation hosts much of the
surrealist pioneer's works
as well
as those of upcoming contemporary artists.
Quote is an isometric action RPG video game which takes its graphical inspiration from
surrealist artists such
as Hieronymus Bosch, and legendary film directors such
as Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro.
You walk in this
surrealist world and all kinds of whacky and hilarious shit happens to you
as you interact with things.
Digression is a common literary technique favored by authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, but outside of the last two entries in the Saints Row franchise (a series Chung name - dropped
as keeping a
surrealist streak alive in games), it's not something we see much of in either the AAA or indie - gaming space.