Word: lifesized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastic Green Thumbs. In hotels, offices, bars and restaurants, artificial blossoms have just about replaced the real thing. Many hotels order their phonies under a lease arrangement that calls for a seasonal change of blossoms to avoid having their lobbies decorated with poinsettias in July. In San Francisco some artists...
From those early years on, Italian painting fluctuated wildly between violence and serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi...
The crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin...