Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social and political freedom until the 12th century. A rebellious band of University of Paris students decamped to Oxford and established a new and freer university; soon their idea spread throughout Europe, along with an entire youth subculture of drinking, wenching, dueling and an arcane language, a bastardized Latin eminently suited for drinking songs. In Italy, students formed guilds and hired professors (granted only one holiday a year), dictated the curriculum, and at Bologna even insisted that their teachers speak at the double in order to get their money's worth...
Last week, after a special plea from Mexico, the only Latin American country that still maintains relations with Cuba, Castro finally agreed to let the "Americans" and 1,800 of their relatives leave. The first planeloads flew out to Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, then on to New Orleans in a chartered Pan American Boeing...
...trouble with most Latin American artists today is that they exist by busily grinding out tardy repetitions of styles already arrived, or even through and done with in the world's major art capitals. Fernando Botero, 34, is the kind of exception to this dismal pursuit of fashionable copies that suggests a rule: blend your native vision with the history of all art and forget critics...
...greenish base that guarantees lifelike hues. He prefers ocher to the chemical yellows that the impressionists first popularized. Yet his art is as thoroughly contemporary as a giant vinyl hamburger, except that he practices easel painting where others mold plastics. In its carnival colorism it is also as Latin American as bananas and coffee beans (see color...
Like Venezuelan Sculptress Marisol, whose primitive cubical, often satirical sculptures are a rage in pop circles, Botero depicts gentle impossibilities. He balloons his figures to look like anthropomorphic Latin American pottery. His subjects turn into jugs with ears, stylized piñatas bursting with human presence. With forceful immediacy, as if cartooning from a reproduction of a Renaissance fresco, his simplified images reflect the innocent expressionism of old Spanish colonial art and the sunlit geometries of its architecture...