Resumen de Anthony Blunt's Picasso
Anthony Blunt never much liked Surrealism. When, however, he reviewed the London International Surrealist exhibition of 1936, he accepted the fact that the English of a certain sort seemed to relish Surrealism in surprising quantities, which gave him an idea – a wicked idea. Perhaps, he suggested, an explanation could be found in ‘the repressive education and way of living characteristic of the English. After all the psychological confusions created in the average Englishman by a public school education are such that he may well find in front of a Superrealist painting that kind of sexual liberty and excitement which suits him. It may be that after a life of good, clean fun the sadism of Soft Construction with boiled apricots by Dalí . . . provides a healthy escape.’ Blunt’s wicked idea was a travelling exhibition of Surrealism especially for the English public schools: Surrealism as therapy for the great repressed of Winchester, Eton, Harrow and Marlborough.
