Word: burlap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly two of the ten heroic statues atop the Buenos Aires building that was to have been headquarters for the huge Eva Peron Charity Foundation appeared shrouded in burlap. The pair: a complacent Juan Peron, hand on hip, surveying Buenos Aires in an open-collared shirt, and a saintly Eva Peron, in a plain dress with outstretched hand. Thus, with monumental effrontery, had Peron ranked himself and his wife with Argentina's Washington, General Jose de San Martin (the seven remaining statues symbolized old age, children, various typical workers). Aramburu's government planned to lower...
...Rome's proudest 16th century families, had just taken her first lover. The scene: a heap of empty sacks in the wine cellar. The man: her father's steward. "Time passed. She heard the drops clicking rhythmically from a spigot. The smell of wine, the scent of burlap, the pungent scent of Olimpio-they wove a dark separate world, safe, secret, profound." How profound or how secret Beatrice's new world really was is something for historians to argue about. But safe it clearly was not. Less than two years later, while a great crowd of Romans...
...hood over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against anyone," were Don Jesse Neal's last words as five .30-.30 rifles (one loaded with a blank cartridge) poked through five holes in a burlap screen 25 ft. away. "Ready!" said the officer in charge to his men as the sun edged red above the rugged Wasatch mountains; then, seconds later, softly, so that the man in the chair would not hear him, "Fire...
Rome's Alberto Burri even managed to be pleasantly shocking. His "pictures" consisted chiefly of ripped, patched and pasted burlap. Sculptor Mirko (last name, Basaldella) exhibited four metal abstractions in four separate styles, each startlingly successful. His Chimera has the still aliveness of an ancient Chinese bronze; his Architectonic Element is a single sheet of brass cut and bent to take the light as elaborately as a great scarred cliff...
...foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures of the sort Giacometti and George Grosz were later to employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed him; he had them under the yoke of wit and taste...