Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zanne's anxiety-the scrupulousness of a genius without facility -would soon become one of the touchstones of modern consciousness. One cannot guess what form art might have assumed without the example of late Cézanne. He was to cubism what Masaccio had been to the Florentine Renaissance. But Cézanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does...
...last week, an exhibition entitled "Cézanne: The Late Work" opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Four years in the making, organized by two leading Cézanne specialists, Professors John Rewald and Theodore Reff, in troika with MOMA's director of the department of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, it is the sort of show which very few museums could even attempt: 124 oils and watercolors, including nearly every major painting that has been preserved from Cézanne's last working decade, 1895-1906. Its catalogue, with nine essays by various...
...historical themes, 1900 's strongest motifs are visual. Bertolucci organizes the film around the seasons of the year and provides a voluptuous emotional texture wrought from pastoral sun light, blood, mist and excrement. Though much of 1900 has the majesty of Renaissance art, many of its images are erotic or terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti...
...University will expand Parents' Day to a two-day visitors' weekend of panel discussions, historical slide presentations, tours of the Fogg Art Museum and student stage performances, the organizer of the weekend said Friday...
Columbia would use the money to expand a library collection of Korean literature and art, Rusk said...