Word: legere
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...gives to the execution of his work and the mathematical balance applied to composition. Furthermore, the materials he uses, wire and sheet steel, are products of a technologically advanced culture. However, for the most part these materials are welded into flowing metal metaphors. In contrast to painter Ferdinand Leger or the constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have...
...Doncaster, England, Kentucky-bred Never Say Die romped to a twelve-length victory in the 178th renewal of the St. Leger Stakes and ran off with $37,721 for his American owner, 78-year-old Financier Robert Sterling Clark. Blinking happily through tears, Clark hugged his three-year-old chestnut colt, first American-bred and American-owned horse since 1881 to win both the Epsom Derby (TIME, June 14) and the St. Leger...
...stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...
...simple because they had to be done fast in order to make a profit. But, by coincidence, Kalighat painters advanced a long way on the road that School of Paris art was later to travel. They reduced limbs to the appearance of bent tubes, as has Fernand Leger, and delineated whole figures with two or three winding contours, as in some drawings by Picasso. The Kalighat Cat with Prawn (see cut) would seem perfectly at home in an exhibition of paintings by Henri Matisse himself...
...Doncaster, England, in one of the classic events of the British racing season, Brigadier Wilfred Wyatt's Premonition, third choice in a field of eleven, beat Queen Elizabeth's favored colt Aureole to win the St. Leger stakes...