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He went from painting realistic New York scenes to concocting mythological motifs with titles like Archaic Idol and Tentacles of Memory . In a way, the shift was less abrupt than it seemed, for Rothko traded in one set of underground subjects, the subway, for another, the "depth psychology" strata of the unconscious, with dreamscape bric-a-brac lifted from Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.
The surrealist fantasy follows John Cusack and Cameron Diaz as a husband and wife who discover how to enter John Malkovich's brain though a miniature door in an office building.
It’s been a home-away-from-home for the extreme right Action Française group under Charles Maurras in 1899; the poet and surrealist precursor Apollinaire in 1914 (who, with his friends, liked to provoke brawls); and, during the 1950s, Sartre’s existentialists, a peaceful bunch who never got enough sleep to have the energy to fight.
His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dalí's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dalí was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
The surrealist art world was like an opening onto a plane of reality that a middle-class unmarried son and brother, a commuter and breadwinner with solitary hobbies and an autodidact's knowledge of the history of theater, of opera, and of dance, might otherwise have never entered.