Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists had done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...neon palette of Marchand's Picasso-period had given way to a cool palette of forest hues: grey-green, apricot, lavender, smoky-blue. Marchand now talks violently against Surrealism ("It's good only for decorating the windows of American butcher shops") and believes that French painting is about to leave restless intellectualism and return to nature...
Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
Sterne, a polished craftsman, had hitherto painted what he saw with a cool, formal realism. He had been accustomed to making dozens of studies for each canvas, spending months on the final version. Then, all of a sudden, "I decided that I didn't have much time left and I'd been trying too hard...
From Beer to Bali. The porch at Provincetown was the end of a long, winding trail. Born in Russia, Sterne came to the U.S. at eleven, earned his living as a Third Avenue bartender. The proprietor gave him his first painting commission: a picture of a cool, foamy stein of beer, labeled "5 Cents." In his off-hours, Sterne went to art school. He studied anatomy under Thomas Eakins, won a traveling scholarship which took him back to Europe...