Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elected representatives in a sense will be soldiers, and like any other soldier, a representative must be prepared to take risks. But really this is only a matter of detail and not an important thing...
With clear title to the tulips, the campers suddenly found themselves very popular. A detail of park police guarded them from hecklers; cars stopped with blankets, clothes and food. When they were not invited out, they could always drop in for a meal at the nearby Bible Way Church. Life on Pennsylvania Avenue, in short, was almost like life in Washington County "except here we gets more food," observed John Henry Sylvester, "more publicity, more protection, more money...
...Late Gothic tradition in Germany was the native inspiration that animated the work of Durer and his contemporaries. Artists working in this style employed interlacing forms and flattened planes, decorative detail, and agitated pen strokes, and displayed strong emotional expression with an interest in man's world in its natural state. More than any other this last characteristic, which we call naturalism, distinguishes the Late Gothic spirit from the idealism of Renaissance...
...naturalistic interest in detail often becomes an emphasis upon the particular as opposed to the general. In Durer's Samson Conquering the Philistines, as in many Gothic inspired drawings, the strong emotionalism, the decorative detail, and the interlacing forms combine with some conscious symbolism to transform the highly realistic detail into a mystical iconography...
...cold solidity of form, which was part of the Renaissance style, to intense emotional expressionism. Lucas Cranach the elder (see his Lucretia as shown here) employed serpentine line and drew expressionistic figures until he came under the influence of Durer's restrained style. He later abandoned his intimate detail for an economic and abstract style, although suggestions of restless Gothic form sneak into Cranach's work as they do into Durer...