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...that their own miasmic backwater is uneventful. After Maria is bitten by a dog and begins to act strange, the local bishop suspects demonic possession. Cayetano is sent as an exorcist, but after one look at the girl's blue eyes and cascading copper hair, all that gets exorcised is his own inhibition. A Latin American Abelard and Heloise? Not quite. Garcia tells a story of forbidden love, but he demonstrates once again the vigor of his own passion: the daring and irresistible coupling of history and imagination...
...they lack the architectural grandeur of earlier Spanish works and promptly induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never won him the success he deserved. But other than France's Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, there was no finer still-life painter in 18th century Europe...
Live's most recent album, Rapp said, is titledThrowing Copper. That recording includesthe songs "Selling the Drama" and "I Alone...
...four lithographs in the series, the most iconic "Young Danish Woman" has gold skin and copper hair. Her head and ravishingly long neck float against the shadowy depths of a black background. Beneath her neck, a small rectangle suggests her shirt collar. Her face is sensuously smudged, unlike Warhol's perfect "Marilyn." Lushly foliated, she is as static as a figure on an ancient Egyptian coffin...
...painted on both sides of the paper so that the colors would be richer and deeper. Even his etchings, one plate of which is featured beside the finished print so that all the delicate lines can be inspected, were often done on iron or steel rather than the standard copper. All of these processes attest to Nolde's singular devotion to creating his world, as scary and enticing...