Word: surrealistic
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During Surrealism’s heyday, Jean Cocteau argued that the criterion for a true work of Surrealist art should be that the images are “lasting and fresh.” “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” would have us question this paradigm...
...Surrealist qualities of the ambitious play—put up this weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, written and produced by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 and directed by Dipika Guha—seemed almost unquestionable. The dialogue, the discontinuities, and the play’s fundamental indifference to narrative all pointed to the same Surrealist conclusion: logic was not welcome here...
...excellent working definition of Surrealism—and it could very well have described the serial structure of the play itself. There were some recurring characters, and there was almost the skeleton of a plot throughout the play, but the form of the show was ultimately that of a Surrealist sketch comedy...
...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Buñuel’s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...
...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...