Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start, the rebel leaders (notified by prearranged "Happy Birthday" telegrams that the time to strike had come) commanded only a few thousand men. They seemed little more dangerous to Perón & Co. than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin...
They prove that as an artist, Callahan can be as articulate in deed as word. At first glance the paintings appear to be sweeping prospects across the Northwest's mist-shrouded glaciers, mountain ranges and stormy coasts. Only slowly do the wraithlike figures of Callahan's inner vision-luminous white men, women and ghostly, plunging broncos-disentangle themselves from the black, grey, ocher-beige and violet whorls of rock...
...very elements that so long kept the Mannerists in disgrace have been key factors in their reevaluation. As modern critics were quick to note, the outstanding Mannerist trademarks-distorted space and human figures, a desire to shock, obscurity and a withdrawal from nature in favor of recording an inner and often highly intellectualized vision-are major currents in 20th century modern...
...Mannerist artists sensed the full impact of the world in crisis, they began to warp reality to meet the mounting tension of their inner vision...
...more than mere ribbons of flesh. When El Greco died in 1614, the Age of Mannerism was already drawing to a close. But before El Greco died, he had validated the Mannerists' extreme contention, that the laws of perspective and proportion must give way before man's inner vision, which not so much mocks nature as triumphs over...