Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this.'' The Loplop Spirit. Tricky as these techniques sound, they never intrude upon the painting; what might have been mere sleight of hand turns into genuine magic...
...Make Magic. Unlike many of his abstractionist colleagues. Hofmann has the virtue of variety. Some of his canvases seem tormented, as if they had been pushed and pulled a bit too hard...
Taking off almost as much paint as he put on, Hofmann managed to achieve the magic he wanted. What could have been static and graceless chunks gradually assume life, like slow-motion dancers in a solemn ballet...
...Seeger sang them today, accompanying himself on his famed five-string banjo. He refused to interpret their political meaning, saying, "It is wrong to pin specific meanings to works of art." He describes his function as a catalyst, "bringing the songs to the people and letting them work their magic...
...railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...