Word: cockatoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic type...
...twelve windows represented in "Masterworks" pulse with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...
They disappeared behind the trees as I stepped into the van. But I could still hear the cockatoo screeching as we drove from the rainforest and down the mountain to civilization...