Word: dadaist
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...Dada retrospective show first opened at a Paris Left Bank gallery, the spirit of the good old days was sadly lacking. The show did not take place in a cellar with the lights turned out. Nobody ate matches, meowed or loudly counted the pearls of visiting dowagers. No Dadaist proclaimed to the public: "Before going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, before shellacking you with passion, we warn you: we are murderers." There weren't even any fights...
...went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works, but never more than two hours at a stretch. "I like to work at white heat for short periods," he explains. Painting is his main love, but photography brings in more money. Like a true dadaist, Ray scorns credit for the unquestionable skill of his photographs: "Many photographers consider themselves as artists. In my opinion, 99% credit should...
Zeiss and Mr. Eastman and 1% to the man who happens to stand behind the camera." Or, as a dadaist once abjured, "Stop looking! Stop talking...
Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center...
...Calder. Sprouting from the grass like a strange new species of mushroom were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...