Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million Americans who, since July 4, 1776, carried this luggage to continental conquest and world leadership, exhibit in their personal and public characters the dynamism of high tension between contrasts. This is not a quiet or consistent people. Its restless side is mirrored in Thomas Alva Edison and Upton Sinclair and the music of George Gershwin. This same people reveres Robert E. Lee, a Christian conservative rebel, and produces figures like Henry Ford, a radical businessman, and William Green, an archconservative labor leader. Of the 300 million Americans, none has shown in his own person the contrast, the tension...
...artist is more typically Spanish than Francisco de Zurbaran, one of Spain's great masters. Until 1905, about all that was known of him came from a yellowed packet of papers and a few disputed paintings found in out-of-the-way monasteries. That year, the first Zurbaran exhibit in modern times was held in Madrid, and the experts marveled that so little was known of the artist whom King Philip IV named "painter of the King and king of painters...
...Bernarr Macfadden's "beefcake" magazines. Pollaiuolo was the first artist to make a first-hand study of what lay under the skin, and he touched off an artistic revolution. How far that revolution carried was shown last week by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art in an exhibit of Art and Anatomy...
...Among the most notable items in the show: a heroic Judith and Holofernes by Rubens, a precise and touching portrait of a half-nude woman by Rembrandt, a vicious Hogarth called The Reward of Cruelty, which shows the dissection of a murderer's corpse in gruesome detail. The exhibit also shows that, once they had learned their anatomy, many artists proceeded to paint the human form not as it was but as they thought it ought to be. The Fontainebleau school (started in the 16th century) created elegant cheesecake pinups of an elongated grace, their charms carefully exaggerated...
Last week's show proved the accuracy of Emanuel's judgment. Spectators crowded the exhibit, bought up his paintings at the average rate of one per hour, in the first three days. At week's end only 16 remained unsold. Mused Painter Emanuel...