Word: aix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swallow & Spit. The early haunt of the pithecanthropus was in the south of France, at Aix. He was something of a sluggard in class, but after school he roamed through the rugged Provencal landscape with a youngster whose nature was as strong and perhaps even deeper than his own-Paul Cézanne...
...arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
Finally, after the war, he settled down in the Cezanne country near Aix. There, said Tal-Coat, he found himself at last, and "found the world in the shade of the ever-changing mountain mists of la Sainte Victoire." Taking to the woods, he studied "the tangled roots of the pine trees . . . the silence of the rock." Later in his studio he tried to catch the forest's "union of space and movement" on canvases which he covered with patchy, off-white backgrounds, spots of green, grey, mauve and brown...