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...eight articles on mediaeval art, twenty-two on Renaissance and Baroque Art, and one on Modern Art. Perhaps it is because the critical apparatus of most scholars is so beautifully equipped to deal with Masaccio and Piero della Francesca that it finds itself at a loss when confronted by Dali and Gropper. At a symposium on Modern Art some years ago, I heard a scholar who has written much and wisely on the art of the Italian Renaissance attempt, quite unsuccessfully, to cope with some of the more extreme forms of modernism; I concluded that his powers of connoisseurship were...
...Manhattan last week, having had as much advance publicity as Ringling Bros., Salvador Dali's new exhibition drew crowds that made the swank Julien Levy Gallery surge and prattle like the Normandie at sailing time. In the first five days sales totaled five drawings ($300-$800) and 14 paintings...
Persistent association with the smart money is suspect in an artist; so is a highly developed faculty for showmanship. Odd thing about Dali is that these qualities are apparently all of a piece with his art, yet his art has importance. Every Dali show since his first in Paris ten years ago has interested critics because 1) the art of painting needs fresh subject matter; 2) psychoanalysis has focused attention on dreams; 3) Dali seems able to recreate their haunting confusion, scale and illumination...
...dream world which Dali has recorded is as specialized as it is vivid. Once a boy wonder at copying Vermeer and Leonardo, he discovered by self-analysis in Paris that he had a persecution complex (paranoia). His oil technique remains that of a brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...