Word: fauvist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th: Fauvist and cubist works...
GEORGES ROUAULT-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. The prolific Frenchman painted thousands, burned hundreds; 20 oils, spanning 50 years, give a spare but instructive glimpse of his trademarks. Fauvist paintings of 1906-07 show passion for pure color; later, thick black lines begin to silhouette jeweled blues and clarets; the "dawn" paintings of the 1950s burst with chrome yellows and greens. Through March...
...peak, the day of the last race, the sunrise is done in color, and the small red accents of morning light seem to bleed across the screen as the movie changes from black-and-white to color. After Eddie loses the race, the color distorts the world into a fauvist painting, wild and brutally disorganized. For the final moments of disillusionment, Leacock switches back to black-and-white...
...last hundred years there have been a number of historic art exhibitions: Van Gogh's first one-man show, the first public display of Fauvist painting, and many other showings that initiated radical, new approaches to art. But lately, those exciting days have been occuring at greater and greater intervals. All this makes "The Artist and The Book" an especially extraordinary event, for this vast exhibit presents a new genre to the gallery-going world...