Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pies studies philosophy, tries to express something of "its tranquility and austerity" in his dark art. The predominantly grey coloring of his pictures does not give a colorless effect but, like a pebble in a stream bed, hints at a glistening multitude of hues. Grey Borders (see cut) reminds Tàpies of a "well-raked garden in a Zen Buddhist temple," but he is quick to point out that he saw a photo of such a garden only after finishing the picture. Certainly it is both austere and serene; if it also seems pretty empty, it is the emptiness...
...think that artists ought to recognize this, that there is no moral reason why art ought to go on if it has nothing further to express. Nor is there any moral or esthetic reason why the public ought to bend the knee in reverence before the mere fact...
...Russians chose to express their displeasure with Conservative Premier Karl Fagerholm by withdrawing their ambassador from Helsinki and cutting off both loans and trade. Fagerholm's government quickly fell, and the Agrarian Party took over. Two weeks later, Finnnish President Kekkonen went to Leningrad for a conference with Khrushchev...
...told that we must blame its short duration--for there is seldom enough time. The general audience, blankly glazed before the home screen, is of course content to take the Expert's credentials as sufficient evidence that whatever he says is accurate. Whereas the humble citizen can express only opinions, the Expert is in the possession of facts...
...have inadvertently reported [Feb. 9] a gravely damaging misstatement from the Sunday Express. The points of misstatement were many but one in particular which attributed to me the statement that I am alive and Christ is not was so damaging to the Christian church that I took immediate legal advice and the Express kindly and forthwith inserted a letter in which I denied making any such statement, adding that to me Christ was never more alive than he is today...