Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legend, one of a legion of its kind, contains a truth about the art of China more telling than any archaeological find: for centuries, the Chinese attributed almost magical powers to their artists. This week gallerygoers who care to risk the dragons will be able to rediscover the magic at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Works ranging from bronze urns and jade dishes to scroll paintings more than 1,000 years old will be shown in one of the most spectacular exhibitions of Chinese art ever seen. The treasures were selected by a jury of Chinese and American...
...yellow cow by German Expressionist Franz Marc looks like something out of a child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
...Sullivan's dictum of "form follows function." He put up an auditorium encased in a gleaming white three-cornered shell that could just as well have been an exhibition hall or a supermarket. For the chapel at M.I.T., his inspiration was the grottoes of Capri, which get their magic light from the sun bouncing...
...Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...
...female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly, and in slow motion, so that it seems to be floating tunelessly through an interminable nightmare...