Popularity of Surrealism Is Hardly an Illusion
Newark Star-Ledger
By Dan Bischoff

If ever there was a Surreal Spring, this is it.

No fewer than three major shows of Surrealism are currently on view in the region, including the international blockbuster "Dalí," which looks at the career of Salvador Dalí from its beginnings in Spanish art school to his jet-set, Miami/Paris/New York days, and which will remain at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for just a little longer than two more weeks.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is simultaneously showing "Max Ernst: A Retrospective," with more than 150 paintings and collages by the German Surrealist and early compatriot of Dalí, through July. Technically more experimental and varied than Dalí, Ernst is more of an artist's artist, and often strove to remove any sign of his actual touch by dropping paint-smeared strings on a canvas as a "drawing," or smashing two wet panels together and pulling them apart to make an image. More…

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