Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea was not original. Such Renaissance painters as Veronese and Tintoretto are believed to have had a hand in the designs of fragile cristallo. But it was a stimulating new notion to today's artists. Austrian Expressionist Kokoschka responded first. Three years later Costantini produced his gay Bacchantes. Then Jean Cocteau got interested, traveled to Venice, christened the project "Forge of the Angels," and supplied drawings. Finally, even Picasso capitulated. To Costantini's enormous relief, language proved no barrier. "Speak Italian," ordered Pablo when the Venetian at last got his foot in the door. "Your French is impossible...
...wound up in Paris last week, the question seemed to be: What do you wear if you are over 20? To emphasize the point, Yves St. Lau rent sent his models out with their hair done up in little-girl braids or little-boy helmets. The colors were as gay as a picture book; in fact, that is where the idea came from, St. Laurent explained. His mother gave him a book of Mondrian's paintings just last Christmas, and his showstoppers were all movable Mondrians, practically gift-wrapped: jersey dresses splashed with squares of stand-up-and-yell...
...time Scenarist John Gay has maneuvered the entire cast into a pesthole known as Quicksand Bottoms, there is little suspense as to what direction the plot will take, and Hallelujah goes into its what-crazy-thing-can-we-do-next phase. Soon those drunken redskins are speeding toward the horizon in ten covered wagons filled with exploding bottles of French champagne-but the white man's magic has long since lost its sparkle...
...Parmelin, a Picasso student and familiar of his household, has assembled what amounts to a private exhibit: most of these 160 studies, here presented in stunning four-color plates, have not been shown before. The artist has illuminated many of them with his own comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss Parmelin's text. The period covered is 1954-63, when Picasso, working with explosive exuberance, immortalized his lovely model (and later, second wife), Jacqueline Roque, on canvas and also in sheet metal, cast iron and ceramic tile...
...life of the housewife is sad and it's gay...