Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sleep, vegetative unconsciousness, surrender of the will--Burne-Jones' art was largely about passivity, and his knights look a tad sluggish even when they are skewering dragons. He idolized Michelangelo--the year 1871 found Burne-Jones flat on his back on a traveling rug in the Sistine Chapel, minutely scrutinizing the ceiling with opera glasses--and comatose versions of the Slaves and Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian...
...modeling in clay, casting in bronze or carving in wood; and this tradition of the open constructed form rather than solid mass arose from one small guitar that Picasso snipped and joined out of tin in 1912. If collage--the gluing of previously unrelated things and images on a flat surface--became a basic mode of modern art, that too was due to Picasso's Cubist collaboration with Braque. He was never a member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational...
...front of a rowdy crowd of 12,801 Badger fans, the Crimson came out flat and Wisconsin responded with four goals in the first 23 minutes of play. Harvard eventually found its rhythm and outscored the home team throughout the remainder of the contest, but the damage had already been done, and Harvard walked out of the Bradley Center with a disappointing 6-3 loss...
...kind of worried about the team going into Divisionals because our practices have been flat," said Gahan after the tournament. "But the team pleasantly surprised me, going out and whipping B.C., then playing its best match of the year against Brown...
...eight-hour trip, so we were feeling a little stiff and a little flat," said sophomore Katherine Hodge. "We didn't have to play our best to beat them...