Word: surrealist
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...incident’s file number, the story of which Mograbi found in the archives of an organization that collects testimonies from ex-Israeli soldiers. In this film, Mograbi, who is also the narrator, takes his artistic aspirations to new levels, using animation, computer-generated imagery, and other surrealist elements to “mask” the young man, making him unidentifiable. According to Mograbi, these devices allowed him to enhance the film’s artistic qualities and preserve the anonymity of the soldier. Mograbi says that he also changed how he narrated the film...
...question fill their winding explanation of the events during that summer in Z leading up to the murder (the novel’s supposed central event that, in actuality, is a sort of narrative telos) with a sort of chaotic abandon more befitting of a soliloquy in a surrealist play: “I felt trapped; I should have been at work by then, and Remo’s gaze reared up like ectoplasm and hit me between the eyes, or that’s how it felt, but in fact it was a sleeper?...
...famous Belgians? Belgium may be a tiny nation, and often the butt of its neighbors' jokes, but it can claim two 20th century artistic giants who would make it onto that list: Hergé - or at least his globetrotting comic-strip character Tintin - and René Magritte, the subversive surrealist painter. Both created iconic images that are recognizable the world over. And since June 2, both of them, finally, have museums of their own in their native country, dedicated to their respective contributions to the evolution of 20th century art. The museums trace the bold innovations and ideas that show...
...HAGUE, Netherlands) - Masked gunmen stole two paintings from a Dutch museum Friday, including a work by surrealist Salvador Dali, officials said...
...Academically, he received a broad education, participating in one of Harvard’s first poetry workshops and immersing himself in the work of Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Joan Miró in a class on 20th century art. Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don’t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something...