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...because he plays it with less ease, though still effectively, as does Lee Jeffries in the role of the poet's lover, who sacrifices herself for him. An indignant landlord, John Ratte, sheds humor on the whole scene with his belligerent fist-shakings. Ann Adams and, again, Clare Scott, depict two sympathetic but gossipy old women in the boarding house where a detective, Bruce Fearing, is searching for conspirators...
...recognized art form in its own right. Even in his preliminary drawings, such as the one he did for a now destroyed Frankfurt altarpiece (see cut). Dürer revealed the caliber of his genius: with a few deft brush strokes on green paper, he was able to depict the figure of an aged apostle fully molded, superbly draped and dramatically lighted, with a power and emotional impact that few oil painters could surpass...
Above the Water. To depict the dramatic sinking of the Dorchester Nivola designed a huge 22-ft.-by-24-ft. hull of white, reinforced concrete, balanced it over a broad fountain basin which flows inward with a whirlpool motion to a small central oval. For the four 6-ft.-tall sandcast plaques, set just above the water to memorialize the four chaplains, Nivola also went back to an early inspiration, the semi-abstract holiday bread loaves made by Sardinian women. For his motifs Nivola picked four common aspirations: the clasped hands of prayer, conflict of good and evil, family unity...
Properly cautious, Miller says: "The rather stringent conditions for a favorable answer seem to be met and strongly suggest the possibility that the two pictographs actually depict . . . the supernova...
...lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605 a Spanish monk wrote that "Bosch alone has the courage to depict the inner and the essential . . . His paintings are not farces but like books of great wisdom." Today Bosch is called the "father of surrealism" and admired chiefly as a convincing fantasist...