Word: dour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soot-blackened spires of the Old Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
...Proletarian" painting, the high-style school of U.S. art in the late '30s, is out of fashion today-but one of the A students of that school who still commands attention is dour Jack Levine, 37. Even abstractionists, today's darlings (whom he sneeringly refers to as "Space Cadets"), respect his work; and conservative as well as advance-guard museums collect it. This fall Levine's paintings will get more attention than ever before: a retrospective show opens this month at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and will be seen later at the Colorado Springs...
...pictures, dating back to 1904, prove for the umpteenth time his vintage quality. Partly crippled by arthritis, as Renoir was, he permits nothing but ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn him a place in history next to the two great masters of American painting, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Max Gubler's 42 paintings turn the Swiss pavilion into a sunlit peak, and assure the reputation of a hitherto little-known...
...white-haired boy of the Paris art world is Bernard Buffet, a dour, 23-year-old recluse. His paintings are miserable in mood, dingy in color, austere in composition and lifeless in essence. Yet he sells almost everything he does, for fat prices-and rake-thin Artist Buffet paints upwards of 100 canvases a year...
...Vincente Minnelli. The Gershwin score brims with a dozen of his works, some heard only in snatches, some unfamiliar, ranging from such standards as 'S Wonderful and Embraceable You to Piano Concerto in F, played by Gershwin's leading interpreter, Pianist Oscar Levant, who doubles as a dour comedian...