Word: crucifixions
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...Century German masters he himself most admired: Matthias Grünewald, Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Their art had been as strictly delineated, and often as sad and bitter cold as his, though far more ambitious. Had he lived, Gruber might conceivably have come to paint a Crucifixion as great as Grünewald's. He never got beyond showing how pathetic a nude model and how forbidding a winter landscape can look...
...sweaty figure "laboring up a smooth pole with all the eagerness of a man struggling for life," and commended the practice to dyspeptic readers. At a temperance meeting, he noted with amusement a sign reading BEWARE THE FIRST GLASS.** Whitman, a nondenominational Christian, told how he explained the Crucifixion, by signs, to a deaf-mute child: "It was very singular . . . that the mind of this dumb youth seemed to respond at once to the idea...
...first made a hit in the U.S. with slick fashion drawings and illustrations. "But with the beginning of the last war," Frankfurter says, "first his subject matter and then his art started to reveal his real profundity. About five years ago, he began work on sketches for a great Crucifixion that has since assumed a quite different evolution. The monumental picture probably never will be painted, but the specific moments of the great symbol of suffering and regeneration are becoming individual pictures...
...latter and is crucified by the natives. On hearing of his the psychiatrist says that "it is part of the design," that his job was unwittingly to direct her in the preparation of her death. Everyone must make a decision and then take the consequences, be it a crucifixion or a cocktail party...
Christ's crucifixion as the saving result of man's "transference" to Christ of his hostility...