Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year round in Cincinnati's Taft Museum. The museum in itself is a small masterpiece of selection and display, should be a mecca for the entire Midwest -yet only about 100 people visit it on an average day. (Out-of-towners automatically head for the more famed Cincinnati Art Museum instead...
Hals's fellow citizens found him "talented" only, and his latter-day reputation has suffered at the hands of art lecturers, who used to discuss his work as a foothill below the summit that Dutch art reached in Rembrandt. In reality, Hals stands halfway between Rembrandt's brooding darkness and Rubens' brilliant dash, also takes his place with them, in retrospect, as one of the best painters that ever lived...
...greatest periods of art, such as the Classical and the Gothic, artists strove for an agreed-upon ideal, and innovations were few (or, if many, did not survive). But modern art relentlessly stresses the new. The result is mostly confusion, but also a degree of fermentation. Last week in Manhattan's Greenwich Village a lean, wispy-bearded man with the cheerful energy of a grasshopper was preparing something brand new in sculpture. His suitably improbable name: Len Lye. His sculptures he calls "Tangibles," but they are not meant to be touched. They vibrate...
...motion. On nights off, he likes to dance like an egg beater to Dixieland jazz. His conversation crackles like Chinese fireworks. Some 25 years ago Lye hit on the then revolutionary idea of painting abstractions directly on motion-picture films-a process that has since become commonplace in art film circles. One of his recent film abstractions took top honors at last year's World's Fair in Brussels, and others are now being readied for distribution by the United Nations...
Thus last week the two greatest matadors of their day brought back to bullfighting the hot-blooded competitive art that can sometimes elevate a ritualized sport into moving drama. Just two weeks before, each man had been nicked by the bulls' wicked horns; now they were back, aflame with desire to star, meticulously careless as ever of the danger that moved beside them on the bloodstained sands...