Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins with the somber, subdued tones of the classic Dutch artists. But his study of Rubens' paintings in Antwerp and his overwhelming need to escape the disaster of his personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life, when his thoughts were concentrated almost exclusively on eluding madness by pouring himself forth in paint with all the joy he could evoke, his color reaches its peak of vibrant warmth and his canvas achieves its greatest vitality--almost more living than life itself...
Philip: Tell me something. Do you en joy...
Verlaine abandoned his young wife and child, and for the next few years he and Rimbaud loved and fought all over northern France. England and Belgium. During this period, Rimbaud wrote his best poems, The Illuminations, which combined a child's joy in nature with the hallucinations of a youth dabbling in occult sciences and dope: naivete, depravity and delusions were fused into poems that might be the joint work of Orpheus, Freud and Hans Christian Andersen...
...romance, with all the humor and the farce of a flirtation. The choreography really took off, exploiting the imagination and freedom of Cunningham's style: kicking splits swooping from the air to the floor, some acrobatics, and a St. Vitus Dance frenzy. In a spirit of whimsy and joy, the dancers switched from the deadpan love-making of Aeon to an enthusiastic dance that came very close to pantomime. Like pantomime, it told a story, and told it clearly. Finally let in on what Cunningham and Cage were up to, the audience loved every minute...
...bred more than enough heroes and martyrs to fill all the pedestals that remained when the Irish finished dynamiting English statuary. It boasted as many wits and eccentrics, from the unknown patriot who dubbed Queen Victoria "The Famine Queen," to Robert Bolton, who escaped from Dublin's Mount joy Prison after leaving a note explaining politely that the accommodations were below his accustomed standard...