Sentences with phrase «great in surrealism»

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To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a Modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Youngest of his generation's greats, he was also the most literate, the most eloquent, and the most fully reflective of the movement's diverse roots in European modernism, including not only surrealism but also Matisse.