Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody in the North understands this business." The drawl was unmistakable, straight from South Carolina. "You all seem to think integratin' niggers is like mixin' paint. You just pour in two pots and stir long enough and it comes out another color. And you can't understand why we'd object to the color of a man's skin, so you think we're all hypocrites. You act like you thought if you just talked long enough, and maybe sent some paratroopers to help talk, eventually we'd start getting' along with the niggers. You don't understand there...
...ballet score). Choreographer Cranko's splintered story had in it recurrent themes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, plus snatches of court intrigue reminiscent of King Lear viewed through the wrong end of the telescope. The stage was roiled by gaudy dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite all that the ballet did not get across its tale of a rejected princess (Ballerina Beriosova) and a prince who has been transformed into a salamander, Composer Britten's dry, percussive, deftly syncopated score never provided the needed emotional lift...
...produced the greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick...
...Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled the beginning of a second long night over Germany...
Strong & Harsh. In the rubble Hitler left, only the hardiest roots of modern art managed to survive. Of the younger generation, the strongest figures combine something of the expressive color of Nolde with the abstract structure handed down by Kandinsky. A leading example is the whiplike abstraction and sweeping, calligraphic symbol of Hans Hartung (TIME, April 1), a German who fought against the Nazis in the French Foreign Legion and is now a French citizen...