Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women enchanted the brush of Botticelli. Da Vinci is famous for one female smile, Whistler for his mother. Degas captured girlishness from gawky grace to the glamorous fall from it. "So why is it unusual that I paint women?" asks Willem de Kooning, at 60 the foremost U.S. artist still working vigorously in the abstract expressionist idiom...
...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I, Leonardo da Vinci," a special documentary with Fredric March speaking for Leonardo. Color...
...explained to the artist that, since those he photographs are his hosts, it was a sort of a guest book in reverse. Duchamp whipped out a pen and, writing backwards, jotted down his signature in a perfect mirror image. For what it is worth, this was also Leonardo da Vinci's favorite device, in his notebooks, for keeping his secrets to himself...
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...longer believed to be quite so innocent or so immature. Certainly Klee was fascinated with children. While his wife Lily earned the family living as a piano teacher, he meticulously jotted down a calendar of his baby son's growth. Typical entry: "July 8. Says: Dayi-da; screams: day-dayi-da. This is the way he demands his breakfast in the morning." Klee's art, with its dah-dits and dayi-dahs, became a Morse code of human thoughts...