Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldman at wingback, the Tiger backfield is among the toughest the Crimson will face this season. In the same manner that Ravenel has deceived the opposition this year by having halfback Chet Boulris throw sporadic passes, Princeton will deceive the Crimson...
Modigliani's Portrait of a Student displays the loosest sort of lyricism into which the Modigliani manner can degenerate. Picasso's two little cubist paintings have little more than the master's signature to recommend them. Their color has no vitality or subtlety and the jumped compositions, especially that of the cramped Bottle and Glass, exemplifies Picasso's carelessness at its most annoying. Carelessness, indeed, sloppiness blemishes a Miro pastel, titled, for no readily apparent reason, Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. A mysterious and evocative oil painting of his, Composition, done in 1925, has a flow and easiness...
...best of atypical Chagall is offered here. The three large canvases of his early maturity depict in a touching manner emotional situations of complexity. Though Chagall's technique some times seems a bit shaky, the pictures, Burning House, Birthday and The Soldier Drinks, all seem to derive from the artists's own experiences in Russia and Paris. Burning House, full of a peasant bulkiness, is especially gripping with its vivid coloring and engrossing catastrophe. Birthday, painted with glowing Iyricism, describes a some how convincing act of leviation, by which a husband floats over to kiss his wife...
...future foreign policy-makers may hide behind the testimony of "experts," to give authority to innovation. It is encouraging to see that someone is interested in Red China recognition, but at the same time it is saddening to see that the arguments must be presented in such an oblique manner...
...again. Two years ago he decided to make the break, sold out the family's small plot of land at a loss and set off for Sao Paulo to paint, and sell ties. On his own, he developed his present style, in which a basic, slashing, abstract expressionist manner is given style by hints of the elegant lines of Japanese calligraphy and architecture...