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Adopted from the start, and strictly adhered to since, was a decision to exclude works by living artists. The most modern paintings acquired so far are a John Marin circus scene and Childe Hassam's Flag Day, a 1917 impressionist view of the Stars and Stripes arrayed along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Toward the Ideal | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...minority but, as always, their activities bring more notoriety than their numbers seem to merit. The cumbersome legal process necessary to enter the University has prevented the police from obtaining much incriminating material in their periodic searches. There is good evidence, though, that the Louvre's impressionist paintings, kidnapped while being displayed in Caracas' Museum of Fine Arts, travelled directly to the men's dormitory in the University City. Further, it is believed that the hijacking of a plush Venezuelan oceanliner earlier this year was plotted at the Central University. Terrorists have been traced to the Ciudad Universitaria time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radicalism Infests Venezuela's Universities | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

...founders of the Bridge were largely self-taught and at first they tended to paint rather alike. They all did carmine-red houses, crimson trees, ultramarine roads, faces that were part chrome yellow and part cobalt blue. They had no liking for the impressionists, who saw a pear in a bowl as having many different shades of green. "For us," says Heckel, "it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl." They also scorned impressionist garden paintings that "could just as well have been shifted a few yards to the right or left in the choice of the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shadow of the Bridge | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...better-known stockbrokers, who began as a runner at 13, was a member of the Stock Exchange at 24, built a thriving brokerage house with ten offices across the U.S., and used his wealth to grow orchids and, with his wife, Seventeen Editor and Publisher Enid Haupt, collect French impressionist art; of cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...laughter into grief. "J'aime la voix humaine," he would say. and no composer of the century knew better how to write for it; Frenchmen now call him their Schubert, their Puccini. From the Mouvements Perpétuels he wrote at 19, through his days with the anti-impressionist Groupe des Six, on through all the rest of his career, he never abandoned his own highly idiomatic voice: Ravel envied him for knowing how to speak "his own folklore." And if the Sept Répons was born of his faith in God, as his friends believe, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: The Poulenc Puzzle | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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