Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gourmet who owns a Manhattan townhouse, vacations in Venice and Greece. And even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building in Boston, the bars will hopefully be burst even farther asunder. Whatever emerges, Motherwell will not lack for space: the mural will cover 224 sq. ft., looming high over the lobby...
...Gay with Banners. Motherwell followed the surrealists' injunction to take doodling seriously as a way of tapping subconscious images-"only the doodling is done on the scale of the Sistine Chapel, not of the telephone pad." To illustrate a friend's poem in 1948, he made his most haunting "doodle": three powerful vertical bars with three hard-pressed black ovoid forms caught between each. They could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after...
...dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray and swung the glass to his lips. It was the same involuntary motion (though quite a different gesture) as the bullet-swatting in my dream. He was very gay. His wife looked beautiful. When the party was over, he flashed a grin, waved to a score of blown kisses, and shot off towards the big house. At ten the next morning, Hodding Carter III, crusading journalist, started...
When he kept it on for long periods, his family noticed that his speech was slurred, he seemed a trifle tipsy and unduly gay. The patient himself said that a jolt of current left him feeling as though he had downed two martinis - with (he added benefit of immeasurably greater pain relief...
Prodigy & Breakdown. Goethe's brilliance was evident early, and so were his problems. His mother, a gay young heiress with a wild gene of genius in her own disposition, strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...