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Getty Voices: The Forgotten Surrealist

By Annette Leddy | Published: February 11, 2013
Wolfgang Paalen with his portrait of Andre Breton
Courtesy Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City

“A feeling of surprise, even disbelief, that someone so unique could have remained unknown to us for so long.” More»

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Posted in Art, Exhibitions and Installations, Getty Research Institute

The “Scandalous Life” of César Moro

By Rebecca Zamora | Published: September 26, 2012
Photograph of César Moro buried up to his head in sand

Peruvian poet César Moro has received relatively little notice in American scholarship. His poetry, artwork, and activities within and without the surrealist movement in Paris, Mexico City, and Lima remain little examined. But the Getty Research Institute exhibition Farewell to… More»

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      Remarkably realistic for medieval illuminated beasts, which were often fabulous admixtures of fantasy and fur. The unicorn is clearly drawn from life, for example.


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