Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second after it is formed, and then decay into a xi particle and a pi-meson...
...tells stories of mutilation and decay. Human and animal forms writhe in agony, ravaged, burning, sometimes headless creatures caught, on canvas and in sculpture, in their final tortured moments. No artist since Goya has been more preoccupied with the portrayal of death than Rico Lebrun. To him, the exploration of mortality is a means of confrontation, and his expressions of "the fright of human flesh" are an attempt to come to terms with the fate of man. And these days, Lebrun is engaged in a private confrontation: at 63, he is suffering from cancer...
...Japanese, the bottom dropped out after the war, and their philosophy of life collapsed. Inwardly they had lost their way. In India and elsewhere, there has been an outer revival of old faiths but an inner decay of the foundations on which those faiths are based. In Africa, the old faith is going out from under them and modern secularism is taking its place. In South America, they've got everything to sustain democracy except a moral and spiritual foundation. And that's the disease of modern...
RAYMOND MINTZ-Rehn, 36 East 61st. Mintz's landscapes abound with bold, nearly abstract forms, symbols of perpetual life and decay, but two figure paintings of excruciating delineation prove he has a realist's eye. Through...
...Instead of delighting in life, as did Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth seems to revel in a dolorous view. His work depicts death, decay, hopelessness and despair. Is this "what America is like...