Word: ming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peering from their high critical bowers, historians maintain that Chinese art has been on the decline ever since 1368, when the Ming dynasty was founded. They describe the art which the Mings favored for almost 300 years as gaudy, flamboyant and imitative. To prove that "exuberance" and "respect for a classical past" are better words for the period, the Detroit Institute of Arts has staged a loan show of some 400 Ming items...
Contemporary with the European Renaissance in art, the Ming (or "Radiant") era was one in which craftsmanship and art were synonymous. It produced a dazzling array of boldly colored and designed textiles, in addition to the fine lacquer work, painting and ceramics for which the period is best known...
...some seven centuries before. Hsieh Ho's six standards, by which Chinese painting was judged: 1) rhythmic vitality, 2) anatomical structure, 3) conformity with nature, 4) suitability of coloring, 5) artistic grouping, 6) copying of classical masterpieces. In striving to meet these requirements, even the greatest of Ming painters seldom departed from familiar themes; but they achieved such happy variations as scholarly Shen Chou's pink study of spring (see cut), and they more than made up in refinement what they lacked in fire...
...northwest China with the original hemp wrapper signed by the woman who wove it. Gest impoverished himself supplying funds for Gillis, who had resigned his commission to devote full time to the collection. Gillis collected a library of Bibles written in 25 dialects, 20,000 books from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 500 volumes on Chinese medicine-the largest Oriental collection in the Western world. By the time the Japanese invasion of China put an end to Gillis' work, the Gest collection could boast a sampling of almost every type of Chinese literature...
Liberals acknowledged that such valuable commodities as scrap iron and rubber tires for Red China were aboard the Ming Sung ships. But they excused the traffic as a minor affair, defended Ming Sung's Canadian registry as a protective device for Canadian investors and taxpayers, i.e., the banks who hold Ming Sung ship mortgages. Prime Minister St. Laurent flatly refused to withdraw the ships' Canadian charter. The Liberal majority, without a single defection from the ranks, voted down, 116 to 36, the Tory proposal to cancel the registry...