Word: artisticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about this musical, which presents history as if painted by a sidewalk sketch artist, relying on calcified profiles of the principal signers of the Declaration of Independence rather than searching character penetration. The score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers...
...SHAME. Ingmar Bergman lingers once again on the problems of an artist's moral responsibilities. This is his 29th film and one of his best, with resonant performances by Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand...
...camels do not find their organization in the real world but are the result of my experience. I cannot imagine or perceive a camel until it is completed." It sounded rather as though she were kidding the highbrows who insist that great art must be abstract. Since the abstract artist-by definition-depicts shapes for which no exact models exist in the visible world, he sometimes refers to his work as "not perceived until completed...
...Traven," reclusive author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and some 15 other novels; of a kidney disease; in Mexico City. Traven shrouded his life in such secrecy that no one could even be sure where he was born (among the theories: Chicago, San Francisco, Germany). "Of an artist or writer, one should never ask an autobiography," he once said, "because he is bound to lie. If a writer, who he is and what he is, cannot be recognized by his work, either his books are worthless or he himself...
...Human Edge, for example, the real Frankenthaler is to be found-not in the weighty banner forms that hang down from the top, but in the horizontal rectangle of white that lies beneath and behind them.The whole picture was executed in rather a girlish pique in 1967. The artist was feeling resentful about the considerable popular and critical acclaim enjoyed by "certain hard-edge painters." Thus "the human edge" becomes a play on the expression "hard-edge." The whole painting says in bold and aggressive tones: "My name is Helen Frankenthaler-and goddammit, I know how to paint just...