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...favorite subject-himself-Salvador Dali writes at least as vividly as he paints. In the French monthly La Table Ronde, Dali adds to the autobiographical score by giving his own account of why he was booted out of the "official" surrealist group in the early...
...surrealists just didn't understand. Says Dali: "Someone like me, who pretended to be a true madman, living and organized . . . was not allowed to exist." He was drummed out of the surrealist circle...
...smoky coffeehouses where Madrid's art world gathers, an ugly word was buzzing last week around the name of Surrealist Salvador Dali: "Plagiarism." The respected newspaper A.B.C. had printed a series of photographs pointing up likenesses between Dali's work and that of some of his predecessors. Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross (TIME, Dec. 17), said A.B.C., resembles a Crucifixion by the 81-year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa...
...Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road and the Italian Shoe Shine. In some...
...tortured landscapes, the cockeyed leering figures that result, were on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery last week. To most observers, the paintings looked like wild crosses between surrealist bas-relief and a mad child's mudpies. But to their creator they brought "astonishing news from the country of the formless." They contained "half-revealed facts ... in some sphinx's tongue [perhaps] the key to ... strange systems of which we have not the slightest inkling...