Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main cultural facts of the '70s was an upsurge, in the U.S. and Europe alike, of realist painting. It came in all modes, from gaudy airbrush renderings of photorealist motorcycles to inflated history painting, and in all emotional temperatures, from gelid beaux-arts nudes to the expressionist rant of political muralists in East Berlin. Much of it was instant art, and instantly disposable. But a striking deposit of achievement remains, and one of its components is the work of the Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha. A scrub-haired, passionately erudite man of 50, Arikha is best known in Paris, where...
...also engaged in a major waterfront reclamation project as well as several residential rescues, was cited by the A.I. A. for its imaginative conversion of the St. Louis Art Museum, designed for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by Cass Gilbert, a leading architect of the Beaux Arts school. The airy building, with a 78-ft.-high vaulted ceiling, had over the years become so cluttered and partitioned that it looked more like a warren than a pleasure dome. Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates gutted the interior to restore the structure's openness-and in the process increased...
Some of those musical riffs can be isolated as gestures, and Wylie teaches them all, many from his 1977 book Beaux Gestes. Pointing to the eye means "You can't fool me," and flicking the fingers across the cheek says "How dull," because the words for beard and razor (barbe, rasoir) have meant "boring" for more than a century. Pushing the nose upward means "It's so easy I could do it with my fingers up my nose." Drawing the tips of the fingers together and placing them in the palm of the other hand means "He's so lazy...
...peculiar rather than radical. Its main element is a 660-ft. glass slab laced into a Beaux-Arts, Manhattanist corset of pinky-gray granite. This shaft sits on an entrance block that is an enormous pastiche of the courtyard front of Brunelleschi's 15th century Pazzi Chapel in Florence. One cannot guess from drawings or models how well this will work. To take a small, private Renaissance chapel and inflate it to nearly the size of the Baths of Caracalla is the kind of perversity Johnson enjoys but has never been allowed to do on such a scale before...
...more exuberant and whimsical than this. Academically, Moore is one of the most influential architects in America. He now teaches at U.C.L.A.'s school of architecture, and he ran Yale's from 1965 to 1975, giving the students a lively and eclectic program that was oriented more toward the Beaux-Arts inventiveness of the late Louis Kahn than toward the International Style. In his book Body, Memory and Architecture (1977), Moore also set forth his ambition for a more humanistic mode of building, the "dwelling" or "nest" as opposed to Corbusier's "machine...