Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parris, Ian Fleming-Williams and Conal Shields. It celebrates Constable's 200th birthday and is the largest showing of his work ever. For the first time, one can see the whole man under one roof-from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes he painted in the 1820s and '30s. These include The Hay Wain, The Leaping Horse, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, Hadleigh Castle. In them Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what Wordsworth...
There are painters who carry their childhood experience all their lives. It forms the genetic code, the inescapable structure, of their work. Constable was one. He was born in Suffolk, where his father owned water mills on the River Stour. He lived a life of blameless bourgeois obscurity, alternating between London and the Suffolk countryside with his wife Maria Bicknell, who bore him seven children. At 45, he wrote to a friend: "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams ... willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, & brickwork. I love such things ... I should paint my own places best-Painting...
Hence his sheaves of cloud studies, done from observations on Hampstead Heath. He did not use the broken col ors and blue shadows which, after a century of impressionism, we still imagine as necessary for telling a truth about light. A work like Dedham Lock and Mill, c. 1819, is straight tonal painting...
...grasp plebeian reality was to engage in a revolutionary act. But he was no militant. As Herbert is careful to show, Millet's imagination was fatalistic and conservative: the peasants, in his view, could never escape their cycle of toil but were bound like weary oxen to the mill of earth and seasons. That was the root experience of his own peasant childhood...
Manny Santel is doubtless the luckiest man in Mosquitos. A skilled worker and union leader at the Aguirre mill, he won a $17,000 lottery. So he had a new house built and paid for Senora Santel's sterilization after only five children. But he is an exception, a relatively sophisticated returnee from New York (those who come back are called Neoricans, a term touched with envy and resentment). "My brother," he says, "has 21 kids. Nobody around here pays much attention to the birth control program. The women don't like the pills. They are simple people...