The Spanish-born artist Salvador Dalí was officially allied with Surrealism from 1929 to 1941, and even afterward his work continued to reflect the influence of Surrealist thought and methodology. His flamboyance, flair for drama and self-promotion, and hyperactive imagination reinvigorated the movement and its public popularity. Dalí, who was given to hallucinations and paranoiac visions, […]
Portraits of young offenders used as targets during the training of police officers in the city of M., US
Haniwa, literally “clay cylinders,” at times numbering in the thousands, were placed in rows at the base of the mounds and scattered on their crests or sloping sides. Sometimes the clay cylinders were topped with figures or animals. This infant boar shows the variety and range of expression achieved by the makers of haniwa. Although […]