Showing posts with label surrealism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surrealism. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2025

before camouflage / modernists denigrated as crazy

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Above Full-page article on Futurism in The Sun (New York), February 25, 1912. ••• WAY TO TREAT THEM in The Stanstead Journal (Stanstead...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Dan Campion / camouflage, surrealism and satiric wit

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Dan Campion, The Mirror Test At a recent book reading, I was fortunate to meet an Iowa City-based writer named Dan Campion . We had an inter...
Friday, June 7, 2024

surrealism / metamorphic shape-shifting in chalk talks

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Chalk talk panel sequence When I spoke recently at the Hearst Center for the Arts about Salvador Dali ’s visit to Iowa in 1952, I noted th...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

endless dalliance / no need to encourage his talking

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Dali Visits Iowa (1952) Martin Birnbaum , The Last Romantic: The story of more than a half-century in the world of art . New York: Twayne P...
Friday, March 29, 2024

unheralded accomplishments of Walter Tandy Murch

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Monograph on Walter Tandy Murch (2021) Recently I became aware of the paintings of an extraordinary Canadian-born artist named Walter Tandy ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

the tragic life of a taxidermist, camoufleur and convict

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Above An assemblage by Romainian surrealist Viktor Brauner (1903-1966), titled Wolf Table (using taxidermy bits from a fox, not a wolf),...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Cocteau / just say he was wearing camouflage gear

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Above Anon, detail of embroidered textile, 16th century Italy. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. ••• Dan Franck , Bohemian Paris: ...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Only spurious resemblance—or is it natural mimicry

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Above (top) is a rendering of an especially odd-looking insect, native to the Amazon, the Latin name of which is Fulgora laternaria ....
Saturday, January 12, 2019

WWI Camouflage, Motion Pictures and Surrealism

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Charlie Chaplin disguised as tree trunk in Shoulder Arms (1918) Above Screen grab from Charles Chaplin 's famous film, Shoulder ...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

FDR In Camouflage | Cecil Calvert Beall

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Portrait of FDR by Cecil Calvert Beall (c1933) The American artist who produced this portrait of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt did ...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Annie Dillard and Dali

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Above An embedded figure drawing from a 1907 issue of The Strand Magazine . Compare that with this observation by Ge...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Ann Elias on Max Dupain

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Max Dupain (1911-1992) was a Modern-era Australian photographer who—along with zoologist William Dakin and other scientists, artists and d...