Word: michelangelo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amen's other self, the darker and deeper one, is best revealed by the large, dramatic print of Adam. In contrast to Michelangelo's noble idealization, this First Man is conceived as a brute. Above his diminutive head, which is dominated by a circle of teeth and a single, piggish eye, he raises a jagged sword. His free hand, meanwhile, hangs ape-like to his knees. Defined in bold line against a blank background, Adam makes a powerful and impressive figure...
DRAWINGS are to paintings what letters are to public declarations, or diaries to autobiographies, or songs to symphonies. Michelangelo called drawing the basis of almost all knowledge, believing that only the outline, on paper or in mind, can make meanings clear. Master drawings merge swift emotion with analysis. They are both personal and sharp...
...governesses, ladies with reduced incomes," who, in the Victorian era, gave it the tone of a genteel rest home. This is the city whose people "invented the Renaissance, which is the same as saying that they invented the modern world-not, of course, an unmixed good." Its great artists-Michelangelo, Leonardo, Cellini-wrought wonders in a time of bloody political and family feuds such as history has seldom seen. Murders were committed at the very altar; homosexuality was a passion shared by artists and businessmen alike; the sins that Savonarola thundered against were as much a part of the city...
...There is nothing wrong with being a hack writer," says self-styled Hollywood Hack Leslie (The Marriage-Go-Round) Stevens. "I would point with pride to the inspired hacking of Shakespeare, Michelangelo-you can go through a big list. I am a firm believer in Hollywood's golden future, and thumb my nose at those who cry 'Twilight in the Smog...
...shaped, minuscule head on a figure that is otherwise so real? "Do people today find it odd that the figures in Chartres have bodies made of little more than straight sticks?" he asks. "Michelangelo's heads would sometimes go ten or more times into his bodies. This is the head I made when I did the figure. I wondered about it. And experimented. I removed this head and replaced it with one that was more representational. It didn't work. This head is right for this figure." He adds defensively: "Some people have said I make the head...