Word: bravura
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...which have sold over a million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam...
...kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western settlements, the sketchers who rode with the troops and Indian fighters, the thoroughly capable, salty and serious realism of George Caleb Birmingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins. Even in Sargent's bravura there was a kind of innocence...
Sheeler, born in 1883, was in his late 20s when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where...
...Bravura was the word for Giovanni Boldini, whose society paintings in the period from 1890 to 1910 were the quintessence which John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson diluted, in ascending order of popularity, descending order of excellence. Last week at the Newhouse Galleries Manhattanites were surprised and seduced by the 68 brilliant, relatively intimate paintings, crayons and drawings which the 89-year-old Italian left in his Paris studio at his death in 1931. In his smaller works (minimum price: $400 for a sketch) Boldini showed a direct mastery of the Proustian atmospheres...
...report was printed, says a stapled addendum, "a divergence of recollection" arose on this topic. No surprise to newspapermen was this divergence when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended report would require only the approval of the trial judge...