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Salvador Dali's frontispiece illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from 1969.
Constellations is a series of 23 small paintings on paper, initiated by Joan Miró in 1939 and completed in 1941.
‘The word “constellations” used by Miró is replete with a concept of passage and of transmission at any price - André Breton, Constellations, 1958
The Morning Star
The Davenports - Whore For The Holidays
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Antoni Tàpies was a Catalan painter who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. In the 50's he was part of the group Dau al Set that had strong ties to Surrealism. and was influenced by Ernst, Klee and Miró.
Paisatge (Landscape), 1950
William Blake - Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels,1808
When Moses is alone on Mount Sinai, God tells him to instruct the Israelites to make a 'mercy seat' flanked by cherubims all made of gold. The description of the angels in Exodus is the source for Blake's design.
Cuban Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam
Belial, Empereur des Mouches (Emperor of the Flies, 1948)
Paul Delvaux - The Sleeping Venus, 1944
Painted in Brussels during the German occupation while the city was being bombed, it expressed anguish contrasted with the calm of the Venus. It was seized from exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1946 by the US Gov't for obscenity
John Cage
In 1952, piano virtuoso David Tudor sat at the piano, propped up 6 pages of blank sheet music, and closed the keyboard lid. He then clicked a stopwatch and rested his hands on his lap. The piece was 4'33", 3 silent movements totaling 4:33 sec.
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