Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallery at the museum's show. There Italian-born Harry Bertoia's Wall Piece ($750) melds steel, bronze and phosphor into an elegant decoration. Bertoia makes no claim for it beyond stating he considers it "a few squares arranged in a quiet way around a stand." His Flower ($900) proves he can do a welded screen in the round. It also happens to be more personal: "I had just returned from Italy and was feeling wonderful. The essential feeling I was trying for was to begin at the center and radiate...
Parental Clay. In the France of 1908 -such a well-tended garden that it was almost a crime for a child to pick a flower -the De Beauvoirs tried to maintain rather than seek status. A soso lawyer. Papa was worldly, intelligent and a gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...
...London, Buckingham Palace felt moved to formally deny that the frolicsome Duke of Edinburgh, attending a flower show in Chelsea, had pressed a button that set off a lawn sprinkler, doused two hapless photographers. But some newspapers kept pointing the finger of guilt at Philip. Snarled a London Herald byliner: "I still believe the Duke dunnit...
...Flower Drum Song. R. & H. skimped on the ingredients this time, but the entertainment is still flavorsome...
...follower, Charles Ricketts, can be seen to derive from the Art Nouveau habit of overstatement and slickness. Likewise, the Nouveau penchant for vegetal forms led to the functionless fantasies in glass of Louis Tiffany, America's gifted designer. The most interesting forms of his stylized works, such as the flower vase in this show, are impractical and, consequently, must be looked at as sculptures in glass. Unfortunately, Tiffany's garish color schemes lessen their value as works...