Victor Brauner.MENIL COLLECTION Victor Brauner is less familiar than his Romanian compatriot Constantin Brancusi, yet his work in many genres--Cubist- and de Stijl-inspired abstraction, Dadaist collage, Surrealist furniture, and encaustic encaustic, painting medium in which the binder for the pigment is wax or wax and resin. Examples of encaustic tomb portraits from Roman Egypt bear witness to the durability of the medium, which is thought to have been widely used in ancient times. Pliny describes the process in which hot liquid colors were applied to the wall by means of heated irons. The technique was briefly revived in the 19th cent. and is now used by a number of contemporary artists. painting--has an ineffable Balkan pungency to it and should be better known. His great painting Force de Concentration de Monsieur K., 1934, is an unforgettable Botero-esque send-up of a porcine porcine /por·cine/ (por´sin) pertaining to swine. bourgeois seen in the nude, while his unique Loup Table goes Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined teacup one better with its bland carpentry carpentry, trade concerned with constructing wood buildings, the wooden portions of buildings, or the temporary timberwork used during the construction of buildings. It comprises the larger and more structural aspects of woodwork, rather than the delicate assembling, which is the province of cabinetmaking and joinery. The craft dates from the earliest use of tools. and snarling taxidermy taxidermy (tăk`sĭdûr'mē), process of skinning, preserving, and mounting vertebrate animals so that they still appear lifelike. The fur or feathers are cleaned, and the skin, treated with a cleansing and preserving preparation, is mounted on a man-made skeleton.. If at times his '40S painting seems discouragingly esoteric--full of references to the Kabbalah kabbalah or cabala (both: kăb`ələ) [Heb.,=reception], esoteric system of interpretation of the Scriptures based upon a tradition claimed to have been handed down orally from Abraham. Despite that claimed antiquity, the system appears to have been given its earliest formulation in the 11th cent. and Novalis Novalis (nōvä`lĭs), pseud. of Friederich von Hardenberg (frē`drĭkh fən här`dənbĕrk), 1772–1801, German poet.-- perhaps such arcana is one way of dealing with the apocalypse apocalypse (əpŏk`əlĭps) [Gr.,=uncovering], genre represented in early Jewish and in Christian literature in which the secrets of the heavenly world or of the world to come are revealed by angelic mediation within a narrative framework. The genre seems to have arisen in Palestine in the 3d cent. B.C. Brauner survived. Oct. 12-Jan. 6. |
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