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Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta" (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. One may (and should) get acquainted with the work of Tom
Bolt, poet, novelist, art critic, and dreadful punster (see bottom)
at his web page <http://bolt.com>
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From: Thomas Bolt <bolt@tbolt.com>
These are not surrealist
paintings but cubist ones,
vide early Picasso (and see
PNIN for why VN loved Pablo),
or more specifically corny
colleagues and imitators -
"bits of string, and a leftist
newspaper," to misquote PNIN
from memory.
VN takes pains to note here
and elsewhere that the
Avant-Garde is as likely
as the rear guard to manifest
the banal: the triteness just
isn't always as obvious.
Tom
PS
Q
Why did the analyticial cubist
paint so many still lifes of
bread and fruit?
A
Because he was Juan Gris.
(sorry)
Bolt, poet, novelist, art critic, and dreadful punster (see bottom)
at his web page <http://bolt.com>
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From: Thomas Bolt <bolt@tbolt.com>
These are not surrealist
paintings but cubist ones,
vide early Picasso (and see
PNIN for why VN loved Pablo),
or more specifically corny
colleagues and imitators -
"bits of string, and a leftist
newspaper," to misquote PNIN
from memory.
VN takes pains to note here
and elsewhere that the
Avant-Garde is as likely
as the rear guard to manifest
the banal: the triteness just
isn't always as obvious.
Tom
PS
Q
Why did the analyticial cubist
paint so many still lifes of
bread and fruit?
A
Because he was Juan Gris.
(sorry)