Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epic Amplitude. It is also triumphant proof that high art and decoration can often be the same. The panels of the Apocalypse obey the conventions of medieval miniature painting: the schematic rocks and grass, the abstract wallpaper patterns in the sky. The artist, Hennequin of Bruges, actually based it on an illuminated manuscript. Yet the design of an episode like St. Michael's casting down of Satan and the rebel angels has an epic amplitude: the heavens part in a frill of white clouds, and from it the archangel plunges down to drive his spear into the seven-headed...
Construction on the new complex is supposed to start around April Fool's Day, and it should be ready for occupancy late in 1975. Above, an artist's conception of the completed building in its Tech Square surroundings...
...here--and with the commercial forms (if not the actual money) so blatant, the implication is that W. Donald Brown's Counterpoint is a con movie, that he's ripping somebody off. Maybe so. But in career games like filmmaking, it's seldom talent that pulls a first-time artist out of the hat and into the public view. Usually you need to do it with mirrors...
...rotting shantytowns but growing maturity with a government determined to abolish shantytowns for the future. The brigades painted murals on walls, on public buildings, outside municipal swimming pools, in a happy and sometimes even erotic style that owed something not just to Leger and Picasso and the professional artist who occasionally joined in because he supported Popular Unity, but also to the pop art and comic books of the United States...
WHEN ISAAC Bashevis Singer spoke at South House last year, he told about "a young artist who once came to me and told me he was afraid he hadn't suffered enough...