Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The stinkpotters. some sailors claim, have demeaned all that is beautiful about life on the sea. They ignore the traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags...
The salt in their bones and the water in their blood tell them all they need to know: that whether they arrive at their destination or reach somewhere else, or whether they never get anywhere at all, there is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing...
Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of...
De Kooning cheerfully acknowledges this debt to nature: "I see things I like. I don't fight them. Maybe it's only a puddle. Four or five months later they come back to me." In much the manner of the old Zen painters, De Kooning believes the image...
Wholeness might not seem the first quality to ascribe to Leonardo, since he left most of his work unfinished. In fact, when Leo X commissioned him to paint a picture. Leonardo at once set to work distilling herbs for the varnish, and Leo complained that the painter would accomplish "nothing...