Word: formations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western art was undergoing its metamorphosis into the style of the Renaissance. It is discussed with reverence in almost every Belgian art course. Done in oil and brushstroked with a miniaturist's love of detail, the altarpiece (see cut) heralds the trend toward realism and shows in a format only 25⅛-in. tall the donors (left), the Annunciation scene and St. Joseph in his workshop, with mousetrap on the windowsill (right). The artist painted window views of Tournai's streets and shops so minutely that only a magnifying glass reveals their full delight...
...more serious music lovers who tune to the 26-year-old Metropolitan Opera show. Its audience has been reckoned to be as high as 25% of all TV homes (40 million), with another 50% picking it up "occasionally." If the show veers from its old-fashioned format of 48-piece orchestra and opera singer in a standard, semiclassical repertory, angry letters pour in. Three-and-a-half years ago, when viewers and listeners* heard that after more than 25 years NBC would have to evict Voice to allow for the modern, ratings-shaped concept of mass over class, Firestone fans...
...from religious painting. The widespread taste for everyday scenes for home decoration was handled in tapestries for the rich; for the less well-to-do, it fell to the "stayned clothe" works on perishable fine linen turned out by the watercolorists. It was to this tradition, with its set format, sharply delineated forms and flat surfaces, that Bruegel himself turned, developing it in his oils to the level of great...
...right. Sinatra's ratings have tumbled steadily to put him below a run-of-the-mill crime series and a same-old-situation comedy that compete with him on the other networks. The electricity of Sinatra the performer has been short-circuited by his show's format and production. No filmed variety seems quite as canned as Sinatra's; it is shot without an audience and without any attempt to simulate a live show. The result recalls the half-hour musical shorts that Hollywood used to manufacture as filler for movie houses. One trade report says that...
...skillfully and beautifully depicts a view of history, even if one cannot agree with its utopian conclusions. Using colored abstractions in the manner of most avant-garde films, it is much more successful in putting over ideas by patterns and symbols than the majority of attempts to use this format. The film has much in common with a number of semi-propaganda cartoons of the thirties, displaying the same sort of over-simplification. The drawing of several of the figures borders on the pornographic...