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Word: fernande (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Among the Fleas | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...talents at sacred art in modestly abstract and semi-abstract styles. The first significant experiment was the installation of windows by famed Georges Rouault in the small modern Alpine church at Assy. It proved so successful that the way was paved for others, including windows of Jean Bazaine and Fernand Léger at Audincourt, and Matisse's chapel at Vence. Today the stained-glass revival is sweeping into scores of medieval churches, most notably the famed cathedrals at Beauvais and Metz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MODERN GLASS FOR MEDIEVAL CHURCHES | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

...find his medium in 1926 with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. The mobile was being born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DESIGN IN MOTION | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries are 29 sculptures with a vastly different intent. Paris Sculptor Etienne Hajdu, 50, born in Rumania of Hungarian parents, first approached his work under the inspiration of Abstractionists Fernand Leger and Brancusi. A wartime stint as a laborer in a Pyrenees marble quarry and an abrupt shift back to the position that "man is wonderful" gave him a new material and new goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Bronze & Marble | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...find his inspiration, the senior partner of Harrison & Abramovitz in 1954 toured the great cathedrals of England, France and Germany. Through his friend, Painter Fernand Leger, he met Chartres' famed stained-glass artist, Gabriel Loire, who molded the glass according to Harrison's design. The ruby, amber, amethyst, emerald and sapphire glass sections, roughly chipped to flash like jewels, are laid out to form abstract designs representing the Crucifixion and Resurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whale of a Church | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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