Word: marlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing, Nikita would scarcely want to mar so quickly the image that he is building as "peacemaker" in Cuba. Moreover, Cuba must have convinced him, if he still needed convincing, that the U.S. will stand firm in Berlin. Since Khrushchev presumably is no more eager to start a nuclear war over Berlin than over Cuba, provoking a Berlin crisis now might be risking another and even more disastrous Russian backdown. The guess is that Khrushchev will simply not revive the East German question for several months...
...good director, Jon Walton, handled what is essentially a wordy play with real agility. And if his casting was spotty, it should be noted that a few garish performances did not seriously mar the play just as a few brilliant ones did not make...
...strange that this should be so, for there is a timeless quality about Marées' art that should win popularity in any age. Though he often drew and painted figures from ancient mythology, he did so out of respect for classical form and balance rather than in an effort to record again the long familiar heroics. He succumbed to none of the emotional excesses of his romantic contemporaries, and while he was always true to nature, he never became a slave to realism. To heighten mood, he sometimes painted his figures in green and orange-a practice that...
...Hans von Marées began studying art in his teens, first in Berlin and later in Munich. In 1864, at the age of 27, he got a commission from a Munich count to make copies of a number of Italian Renaissance masterpieces. When this chore was done, he stayed in Italy, surrounded by a tiny coterie of friends. He apparently had no interest in fame: the few major exhibitions of his work took place after his death. The new German artists acknowledged him as a master, but his work dropped out of sight again during the Third Reich...
...Bremen show are portraits, but most are nameless nudes, many of them studies for future paintings. In the portraits, he proved that he could catch a subject's inner being, but his nudes go far beyond the limitations of the individual. U.S. Critic Peter Selz probably summed up Marées' contribution best when he noted that the artist always treated his nudes as "timeless creations of nature. Their significance is never that of the incidental but of some universal law." It was this quality that enabled Marées to span the ages and to search...