Museum-quality exhibition of Surrealist and Dynaton masterworks
In early 1941, Wolfgang Paalen finished a full-face portrait of Albert Einstein. He based the painting on a photograph and executed it in a style reminiscent of a work Oskar Kokoschka did four decades earlier. At that time, Kokoschka was still the world's most highly regarded Austrian painter, looming large in the imagination of the Vienna-born Paalen. Paalen was born in 1905, when Einstein published his Annus Mirabilis papers, outlining the basis for post-Newtonian physics. In addition to being a world-renowned artist, Kokoschka was a notable writer, dramatist and theoretician...
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