Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virtue in Curves. For Torroja, the beauty of structure grows out of the mathematical laws that express the flow of stresses and tensions. "For the first time in the history of art," says Torroja, "the structure has acquired an independent personality, so that its own intimate esthetic quality can be appreciated...
...best is yet to come, Torroja argues. As engineers work their way intuitively into the art of structure, Torroja is certain that a whole new vocabulary of beauty and function will be discovered and put at the service of architecture, giving it a personality and variety such as the world has never before known...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, who retires next month after many years of brilliant work in the classics, and Ernest F. Gombrich, visiting professor of Fine Arts and During Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at London University, are two more high on the list of prospectives...
Instead of Fine Arts 13, a new full course should be substituted whose main concern would be to acquaint the student with the many different ways an art work can be approached. The first term should study intensively and unhistorically selected masterpieces of painting, leaving out the added complexities of the architectural and sculptural disciplines. The emphasis would be placed entirely on art appreciation...
...reflected by a small number of works of the greatest masters from Giotto to the decline of the Baroque at the end of the seventeenth century. Here, the ways of looking at a painting as discussed in the first term would give depth to a historical study of art styles. The student at last would have a chance to emerge with a deep familiarity with a significant era in art history. What is far more important, the course will have made a thorough attempt to "increase the student's visual perception of works of art...