Word: basis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...super-surrealistic Art-of-this-Century gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body." Wolfgang Paalen not only splashes words around - he edits and publishes...