Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weary & Queery. Beardsley was influenced by Japanese prints and linear Greek vase painting, created an amalgam that also included serpentine art nouveau and traditional English silhouette figures. His subject matter was never innocent. Wrote Beardsley of a series of book cuts: "The subjects were quite mad and a little indecent. Strange hermaphroditic creatures wandering about in Pierrot costumes or modern dress; quite a new world of my own creation...
...process of protein synthesis, information is transferred from DNA, a linear sequence of nucleotides, to messenger-DNA another type of nucleic acid. The messenger is then "read" and amino acids corresponding to the "words," or codens are joined together end-to-end in a long chain to form a protein...
...Matisse's artistic production reveals a progressive shift of emphasis from elaboration to a maximum simplicity. His artwork demonstrates an increasing interest in the instantaneous expression of a whole idea and a decreasing effort to fill in the detail. But attempt to organize Matisse's career into a linear development or to categorize his work into formal periods or genres results in failure. His curiosity creativity moved with such freedom of imagination that the structure of associations was too personal and complex for scholars ever to untangle, best, they can try to understand what he was looking for and examine...
...intricate nature is clearly brought out in the Boston Museum's extraordinary exhibition of Durer and his Time. But above all, this show brings out Durer's supreme position among German draughtsmen of the fifteenth century. He was the man who tried to bridge the gap between Late Gothic linear expression and the compositional stability of the Renaissance...
Hans Holbein the elder drew sensitive linear portraits which were largely within the Medieval tradition though, at times, he too felt the pressure of Renaissance idealism. The younger Holbein, (see figure 1) representing a new generation drew the idealized figures and solid forms of the Renaissance with little nostalgia for the spirit of the Middle Ages (see his Two Lansquenets Boring an Escutcheon...