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...Spoleto Festival, weighs 30 tons, looms 59 ft. high, and could only be assembled for the festival with the help of shipyard cranes in Genoa. Calder's first, more sylphlike stabile was created in 1931 when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp. From them he learned the art of expressing the forms of living things in the context and materials of the machine age. As the stabiles' dimensions have grown more mammoth, so have their artistic strength and lean, linear elegance...
While the exhibition does not pretend to be a comprehensive survey of Surrealist and Fantastic art, virtually every important Surrealist artist is included. Arp, Chagall, de Chirico, Dali, Ernst, Klee, and Miro are each represented by a number of paintings; several of these works are well-known and most are characteristic of each artist's particular development...
...Fourth Dimension. Swiss by birth, Kurt Seligmann grew up in Basel, studied art in Geneva, and in 1929 joined the Abstraction-Creation group in Paris. There he worked with Jean Arp in surrealist exploration of a limbo of landscape of imaginary objects utterly divorced from reality. Like Arp, he drew "biomorphs," or lifelike forms-egg shapes, darning sticks, blobs crisply drawn over tempera grounds. To shock the stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable...
...chronological order. He vastly enlarged the U.S. collection because U.S. art "was seriously underestimated abroad." His great exhibitions are the talk of London: the 1963 survey of Australian art from aborigines to Sidney Nolan, his 1960 Picasso retrospective (which drew half a million viewers), big surveys of Hitchens, Arp, Soutine, Modigliani, Calder, Kokoschka. Nowadays, the supreme accolade for a living British artist is not a place in the Royal Academy. It is a place in the Tate...
EMILE GILIOLI and MICHEL ELIA-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. Fifty sculptures by two Parisians. The polished-bronze abstracts of Gilioli, formerly a blacksmith, are forged with a purity of line that is matched by Elia's virginal Arp-like marbles, which more immediately echo the human figure. Through...