Word: crucifixions
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...last week, the Pennsylvania Academy welcomed the city to its 148th annual art exhibition and handed out kudos for the best work in the show. The prize for the top painting went to an old & familiar name, Abstract Muralist Rico Lebrun, for a panel from his dark and angry Crucifixion (TIME, March 19, 1951). But the top sculpture winner was a surprise: a Roman Catholic priest who teaches art at Notre Dame...
...Only a handful of paintings and a bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
...name of Surrealist Salvador Dali: "Plagiarism." The respected newspaper A.B.C. had printed a series of photographs pointing up likenesses between Dali's work and that of some of his predecessors. Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross (TIME, Dec. 17), said A.B.C., resembles a Crucifixion by the 81-year-old French artist Auguste Leroux. A dog in a recent Dali picture is the image of a dog in Anye Bru's Martyrdom of St. Mcdin (circa 1500), and the Dali horses in his set for the ballet Mad Tristan look like John Frederick Herring...
...against Him." They knocked down the men and called the girls "curry guts." An Indian girl turned to Scott: "It's not their fault; they don't know what they're doing." She was a Moslem and had not read the story of the Crucifixion...
...habits. In the early days, Sears' ultimate in sophistication was a solid gold toothpick with earspoon combined, its recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches or backaches. There were "liquor cures" (i.e., knockout drops), and Sears' remedy for the "morphine and opium" habit. Pajamas were first carried for men only and its rouge would "never be noticed...