Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social Realist Ben Shahn, 57, the obvious fact was that today abstract artists and their public are poles apart. Said Shahn: "The great subject of Western Art has always been the crucifixion. At times painters have focused on the landscape behind, at times on the still life in the foreground, but the great subject must be there. Unfortunately, from time to time a generation of painters has to be sacrificed while artists re-explore the potentialities of their tools. This seems to be such a generation...
...another survey shows 53% unable to name even one of the Gospels. And a panel of 28 prominent Americans asked to rate the 100 most significant happenings in history, ranked Christ's crucifixion 4th (tied with the Wright brothers' flight and the discovery of X rays...
...Samuel Butler proved, a man who believes that swallows hibernate in the mud beneath ponds or that a woman wrote the Odyssey can still write sensibly and well. A man who believes that the human race is largely composed of sinister little fascist gremlins engaged in re-enacting the Crucifixion with the author himself as the central figure, is in somewhat worse shape. Still, U.S. Communist Howard Fast keeps on writing all the time. He has just brought out 16 more stories, and his publishers bill him as the world's most widely read living novelist...
Perhaps the most exciting of the lot was Grünewald's Crucifixion, one of just 15 paintings by the German master that are known to exist. The torment of Grünewald's art exerts a peculiar fascination for 20th century connoisseurs: more than 400 studies of him have been published since 1914. The National Gallery has always been weak in German art (as are most galleries west of the Rhine) but the Kress gifts will change all that. According to Guy Emerson, vice director of the Kress Foundation, Grünewald's Crucifixion will dominate...
...Moscow correspondent. Molotov spun through 40 rooms of art in an hour, suggesting by changes in his usually granite features that he was taken by Rubens and Tintoretto, curious about an obscure painting of J. P. Morgan-by Carlos Baca-Flor, disdainful of Salvador Dali's recent The Crucifixion. After seeing the best of the Met's European works, Molotov asked to see some American paintings...