Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champs Elysées they came one afternoon last week, 5,000 youths, war veterans and rightist sympathizers. After a small group had placed a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, they crowded toward the office of the weekly L'Express, which has been attacking French army excesses in Algeria (TIME, April 1). Some shouted, "Mendès to the gallows"; others cried, "Down with Mollet." They carried placards: "Are Our Deputies Still French?" A grenade exploded, a paving stone crashed through the big plate-glass window of the L'Express...
...France's most distinguished soldiers, General Jacques Marie Roch Paris de Bollardière, paratroop veteran of Indo-China, last week asked to be relieved of command of the Algerian sector east of the Atlas Mountains. His reason he made plain in a letter to L'Express Editor Servan-Schreiber, who had served as a lieutenant in his command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful...
...graft brightly colored mosaics into his metal creations. An admirer of Calder's mobiles, Lardera says: "Where Calder really introduces movement, I try to give the impression of movement." His current show at Knoedler's is an exhibition of 22 welded pieces of sculpture whose geometric designs express the purely formal relationship of planes, lines and space plus their textural appeal. As one Lardera supporter put it, to look for any literary meaning in his work "is to look for moonlight in a sonata...
...well-to-do Leipzig physician, Hartung began drawing in infancy, as most children do. But, recalls Hartung, "while the other kids were drawing manikins and animals, I tried to draw thunderstorms." Later on he filled the margins of his schoolbooks with doodles that seemed best to express his feelings. Outwardly, Hartung followed the trend of his generation, haunted the museums in his teens admiring Rembrandt, Matthias Grüunewald and El Greco, began painting in the style of Viennese Expressionist Kokoschka...
...proved to be his turning point was Franz Marc's Fate of the Animals, done just before World War I. Standing before it, Hartung found that "the more I looked, the more the animals annoyed me. I forced myself to overlook them, and back home I tried to express the same rhythm with color only, without using animals or any other objects...