Word: instinctiveness
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...aside from a few laughing fisherboys, gypsies and assorted tipplers, must have been a pretty stodgy lot. Yet Hals gave them a vitality that still jumps from the canvas. Hals never worked from sketches; he drew simply and directly with his brush, building his invariably harmonious compositions almost by instinct. He wasted no time on frills or dramatics; his presentation was straightforward, sometimes even stark. Yet his brush was so light and fluid that even when his subjects appear in a void, with nothing stirring about them, they themselves seem about to move or speak...
...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
With spring comes a revival of the gypsy instinct in the U.S. family. For the determined weekenders heading for the shore, the mountains or the lake, there is a spate of new items designed to aid and comfort...
...powerful Art Students League. Davis' next teacher was the 1913 Armory Show, which he saw when he was not yet 20. It was sheer emancipation to see that Van Gogh and Gauguin used color, not as nature had it, but almost arbitrarily in accordance with artistic instinct. Davis also discovered that "cubism allowed you to form the concept of the object as you saw it from different views." When he had absorbed the show, he knew what direction he would take: "I would be a modern artist. So easy. Except for one small matter...
...conflict that he experienced during his first jump. "On the one hand is the fact of its safety: you grasp this easily and firmly with the mind. But on the other hand is the emotion of fear. It is so strong that you might want to call it an instinct. It is not, of course. This fear is very useful, and you have learned it from your earliest days of falling out of your high-chair...