Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improvisation might spark things along: these are decisions Michael makes. He plans the Waverly programs around a theme. Their annual December concerts in a 12th century Spanish apse at the Cloisters range over medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Christmas selections. Recently, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they encompassed "The Gothic Era." Next week, at Lincoln Center, it will be "The Music of Spain...
...primitive Christian rituals and crude effigies was visited by artist after artist, in the hope of finding not only good local color for genre scenes but plenty of metaphysical symbolism as well. "Atheist that I was," Bernard wrote of Brittany, "it made of me a saint. It was this Gothic Brittany which initiated me in art and God." And one can judge the intensity of the Nabis' desire for a new sort of pictorial symbolism by seeing Bernard's, Serusier's or Gauguin's Pont-Aven paintings against the more ordinary folklorique images by now forgotten academicians like Emile Vernier...