tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post2331009234352384196..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: John Sweet writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-47746482524522881462018-01-17T20:01:28.808-08:002018-01-17T20:01:28.808-08:00Wolfgang Paalen was one of the 1st Surrealist pain...Wolfgang Paalen was one of the 1st Surrealist painters who lived mainly in Mexico after 1939, where he developed his art and ideas about art, telling Gordon Onslow-Ford that "we, and not the people in New york, have found the opening to the new world." At about the time he painted "Les cosmogones" (cosmogonies are theories about the origin of the universe) in his art journal "DYN" (derived from the Greek phrase meaning "that which is possible") he wrote, "Paintings no longer represent; it is no longer the task of art to answer naive questions. Today it has become the role of the painting to look at the spectator and ask him: what do you represent?" His 300 or so paintings (plus a few sculptures and objects) were enormously influential at the time of their creation. Annette Leddy compared him to Vincent Van Gogh on acid, saying his art was "like a spinning star from "Starry Night" that had spun out of control and multiplied and expanded to cover a whole canvas."DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com