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Word: ernst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefest art movement in history. Why, then, have scholars begun again to take it seriously? In the new view, it is seen as a genuinely liberating upheaval that gave some of the modern masters their first taste of bold experiment. Some of art's biggest names-Rodin and Ernst Barlach, Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Gauguin and Picasso-were at one time caught up in it. There is another reason for Art Nouveau's comeback. Its dipsy-doodling fancies may sometimes be gaudy, even ludicrous, but they recall a period that did have a kind of uninhibited elegance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Time of the Tapeworm | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...years of labor this spirit has driven Sweden's Ernst Ingmar Bergman to produce an enormous canon of cinema, comprising 22 feature films and at least four other scripts, that merges into a single vast and violent masterpiece, a work of volcanic profundity and sometimes tumid pretentiousness, of snorting pornography, sly comedy and ripe ironic wisdom-a sort of serial Faust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SCREEN: I Am A Conjurer | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...with private references. He has the courage to use clichés, and often they work beautifully-witness the white-faced, black-cloaked figure of Death in The Seventh Seal. But at other times, particularly in his comedies, the clichés are the devices of a back-country Ernst Lubitsch; in A Lesson in Love, the last-minute, sappily symbolic entrance of a small boy dressed as Cupid is pure Kitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SCREEN: I Am A Conjurer | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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