Word: monetization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American critic put it, "haggard with self-consciousness"are much envied in Tokyo. But the most admired living artists are all Western, with Jasper Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project in Miami's Biscayne Bay-as Japanese as a Monet, blooms of pink on the still water-caused great excitement on the other side of the Pacific. It is possible to find current work of real merit, like the exquisite objects of washi (handmade paper) with tones and twigs embedded in them, by the Kyoto artist Shoichi Ida. Yet the resignation with which...
...West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things as natural as possible...
...Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon on 208 acres. Built in 1964 at a cost of $5 million, the mansion alone covers nearly an acre. Inside is a major collection of impressionist (Renoir, Monet) and postimpressionist (Gauguin, Van Gogh) paintings...
Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impasted surface, though sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety the bursting fan of foam over the rocks in White Wave, 1954, is like a Monet haystack made of water, not grass. But the major Averys, like Sea and Sand Dunes, 1955, or Speedboat's Wake, 1959, are thin, taut, nearly as evanescent looking as weather itself. Their pictorial construction is achieved almost entirely through color: the weight of a red, the brooding distension of a purplish sea against a blue headland. Nothing is subordinate in such paintings...
...race and White's portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life a legend, a starting point of future departures...