Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That supreme musical watercolorist of English post-Romanticism, Frederick Delius, is known best today for such delicately tinted orchestral tableaux as Brigg Fair, Over the Hills and Far Away and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Last week at the Opera Society of Washington, his opera Koanga made it...
It also is fascinating that, in an essentially repressed society, murder and violence seem to have occurred about as frequently as they do now in the "liberated" freewheeling modern world. Indeed, when set against Altick's grisly social canvas the current scene seems almost heartening. Unfortunately, the book is...
Crunching Hook. Aware that he was way ahead on points, Ali coasted through the late rounds until a few of the fans began booing and filing out of the Garden. They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that...
His sternest test comes each winter when the great pinkfeet migrate from Iceland to roost in the wheat and potato fields of Lincolnshire. Considered Britain's ranking expert on wild geese, Thorpe has banded the pinkfoot for conservation, painted it on canvas, filmed it, shot 3,800 himself and...
The show in Los Angeles was organized by Art Historian Douglas Cooper, a major collector and close friend of Picasso, Braque and Leger. The movement, he argues, aimed to restore reality to art, to discover a way of representing "the solid tangible reality" of things. This sense of reality and...