{"id":12723,"date":"2025-11-03T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:50:54","slug":"surreal-america-at-michael-rosenfeld-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/03\/surreal-america-at-michael-rosenfeld-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Surreal America’ at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

An elongated head at the entrance to Michael Rosenfeld Gallery<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Surreal America\u2019, painted c. 1947 by Russian-born painter and set-designer Pavel Tchelitchew substitutes a face for a cluster of glowing, interconnected lines recalling a synaptic network.\u00a0 Both picturing a real head \u2013 see the halo of fine hairs \u2013 and an abstracted representation of thought processes, the piece introduces the mix of styles that US-based artists employed as they adapted European Surrealism to their own ends.\u00a0 Virginia Berresford\u2019s 1940 \u2018Air Raid I\u2019 strikingly pits a sole person\u2019s hand against military aircraft overhead, finding surreality in an advancing existential threat.\u00a0 Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, and Adolf Gottlieb employ color and archetypal forms to plumb the depths of human experience while Betye Saar, Joseph Cornell, and Lee Bontecou construct their own mini-architectures with which to contain the world.\u00a0 (On view through Nov 8th<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n

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Pavel Tchelitchew, Portrait of Fidelma (Interior Landscape), oil on canvas, c. 1947.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Virginia Berresford, Air Raid I, oil on canvas, 1940.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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An elongated head at the entrance to Michael Rosenfeld Gallery\u2019s \u2018Surreal America\u2019, painted c. 1947 by Russian-born painter and set-designer Pavel Tchelitchew substitutes a face for a cluster of glowing, interconnected lines recalling a synaptic network.\u00a0 Both picturing a real head \u2013 see the halo of fine hairs \u2013 and an abstracted representation of thought … <\/p>\n

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