Category Archives: Surrealism

Max Wyse – Mexico Terrarium

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. . . . . . Max Wyse via Inside the Frozen Mammoth

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François-Xavier Lalanne: “On to bigger and better things”

Posted on December 15, 2008 by

. . . . . . New York Times

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Miquel Barceló- “Figures and Myths”

Posted on November 20, 2008 by

Miquel Barceló. Elefandret, 2007 bronze, 1/8 157” x 67” x 63 1/8” Miquel Barceló en la catedral de Palma Miquel Barceló, New ceiling of a conference room of the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2008 Miquel Barceló Clay and Bronze

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Marcel Duchamp – The Father of Contemporary Art

Posted on November 13, 2008 by

Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) 1946-66 Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), 1887 – 1968 Marcel secretly worked on this piece for 20 years while even his closest … Continue reading →

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Ernst Fuchs “A monument to the temporal within eternity”

Posted on November 6, 2008 by

“Unprepared though endowed with this strange gift for ‘seeing’, the visionary artist finds himself isolated – an outcast prone to unusual insights. He is, by nature, an outsider, a wanderer, a derelict. And yet, for a few brief moments between … Continue reading →

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Ernst Fuchs – “Art needs a cult to create culture”

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“The Christian and Judaic themes in Fuchs’ work come from a very deep place. His father, Maximilian, was the son of an Orthodox Jewish family and had turned down a career as a Rabbi, leaving his theological studies uncompleted. His … Continue reading →

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Ernst Fuchs “Vienna School of Fantastic Realism”

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Ernst Fuchs (born February 13, 1930) is an Austrian visionary artist…and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. (In) Vienna in 1961 (Fuchs) had a vision of what he called the verschollener Stil (The Hidden Prime … Continue reading →

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Joan Miró – “An assassination of painting”

Posted on November 2, 2008 by

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was an Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a … Continue reading →

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