Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monet began to go from his lovely and unprofitable beginnings to a fanatical and highly lucrative exploration of impressionism's end: the picturing of daylight, like a spangled web swathed about the world. With worldly success he lost the almost Flemish reticence that gives The Seine at Bougival halt its charm. Long before his death in 1926, the old man's gilded haystacks and mauve cathedrals became dated. But among the rich and often raw liqueurs of modern painting, his best work is still as refreshing as a long glass of sodawater, iced...
...known to such intimate dependents as his mother, father, and big brother, pretty much calls the shots around the bigtop, even with interviewers from newspapers. "I talk English good," he said, when we were first introduced. "And I talk five languages too: English, my own French, Flemish--write this down," he broke off, pointing sharply at my notebook. "And, let's see, Flemish and Dutch and Swedish." began to stretch...
...historians once maintained that Antonello traveled to Bruges to discover the oil painting technique developed by Jan van Eyck. More likely he learned it in Naples, from a copyist of Flemish paintings. For a year (1475-76) he taught the technique in Venice, where even the great Giovanni Bellini was eager to learn from him. What Antonello brought to Bellini (and through him, to Titian, Giorgione and Italian art in general) was nothing less than a new tool for rendering light. Having accomplished that, he returned to Messina...
...Flemish Choral Music (Ghent Oratorio Society conducted by Marcel de Pauw; Esoteric). Thirteen delicately tinted songs for chorus, and two guitar interludes, all glowing with Old World warmth The 104-voice chorus sings with charm and intimacy...
...months later, King Leopold, a lonely widower,* secretly married Marie Liliane Baels, the comely daughter of a Flemish shrimp merchant who had made good in politics. The marriage was morganatic; instead of becoming Queen, Liliane took the title of Princess de Réthy, and renounced all rights of succession. But the news, when the German radio leaked it, shocked Belgians and brought this reproach from a Brussels newspaper: "Sire! We thought you had your face turned towards us in our misery; instead, you had it hidden on the shoulder of a woman...