Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grabs a cow and paints with the cow...
MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's surge to the Rockies...
...Whether it's a he-cow or a she-cow, a sea cow is a sea cow...
...with a spectrum that vaults beyond the impressionists' naturalistic colored light and into a mystic realm. The imagery performs flip-flops, a peasant woman turns topsy below inverted roofs. Perspective is abandoned to a personal scale that adjusts the size of images to their importance. So a huge cow and a man nuzzle, centering on a vortex of color that abolishes depth. Like the flat saints of old Russian icons, his images beckon contemplation, summoning memories from the mind. It is the scenery of a child building dreams in a darkened bedroom...
While the audiences are relatively small, they come from far and wide. Last week a capacity audience filled the 630-seat auditorium (recently replacing a former cow shed) and flowed into the fields to hear Pablo Casals conduct the Marlboro Orchestra in two programs. The highlight was Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 4 in D Major...