Word: enamels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands of a few highly talented men, had deteriorated into a cliché. He denounced "the dogma of rectangles" and the module system of building - "as monotonous as the Arabian desert." He deplored the "plastering of whole blocks of midtown New York with regimented patterns of glass and porcelain-enamel rectangles." Function, economy and order, said Yamasaki, were no longer enough. "My premise is that delight and reflection are ingredients which must be added. Unquestionably there is delight in our best new buildings, but this delight is in structural clarity, in proportion, and in elegant details and materials, and these...
Searching abroad to fill out his show, Milliken borrowed art from the Louvre, India, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether his catch amounted to 63 paintings, four pieces of sculpture, some goldsmith and enamel work, and a display of manuscripts from the Morgan Library. One of his regrets is that he failed to get a Velasquez, but he took his−chances. "In the museum where they had a Velasquez that I would have liked to borrow, they happened to have an El Greco which I felt was finer...
...painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
...color pages). Architect Richard J. Neutra's pioneering (1940) Crow Island Elementary School in Winnetka, 111. did away with fixed seats and high ceilings. Architect Mario J. Ciampi's prizewinning Westmoor High School (1958) in Daly City near San Francisco is big, stunning architecture: shimmering glass, enamel murals, barrel-vaulted roof. Grabbing whatever space is left to schools, other designs march ingeniously up and down hillsides. New hexagonal and pentagonal structures reach out for sun and air, proclaiming the pleasures of education...
...Argentine doctors at first could not detect what ailed him. After two days of near-mute anxiety. Tucker was ready to pack and go home. At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx. Once it was removed, he regained his voice, drew mighty ovations and endless curtain calls from the audiences in B.A.'s old Colon Theater...