Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics and most visitors praised the show, but a few found it bewildering. Looking at a red-lacquered altar from Japan, a woman from Germany exclaimed: "I just couldn't pray properly before such a thing!" Since a Japanese might have equal difficulty at a Gothic altar rail, the objection pretty well illustrated Monsignor Costantini's point: that native art may serve faith better than the alien kind...
Separated by broad cobbled squares and courtyards are the ornate buildings of the Czars, executed, like the history of Russia itself, in a variety of styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Neoclassic. On the tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...
...change was still almost invisible to an old grad's nostalgic eyes. But it was getting more noticeable all the time. After years of hewing to the traditional Colonial-Georgian-Collegiate Gothic line, U.S. colleges were turning to modern architectural styles. In its current issue the Architectural Record has collected a few prize exhibits of new college building...
...Matisse, for example, have applied their free-wheeling philosophy primarily to color, laying it on canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination with the fire...
Lovely Shelmerdine. One horrible example of Drayneflete's decline & fall is the little Gothic lodge built by the second Earl of Littlehampton on the outskirts of town, about 1800, to house the noble lord's friend, the poet Jeremy Tipple. At first a pretty little country house, the building becomes in turn a town house crowded by a garish gin palace and a draper's shop, a mason's workshop, and finally-in the Drayneflete Plan-a pickled historical monument ornamenting a main traffic artery...