Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of the Pacific Northwest's mystic Morris Graves is seen in low-keyed colors: dark browns, misty greys, the glint of surf. Done with techniques heavily influenced by the Orient, his work reveals a world of nature, ranging from joyous pines to blind and wounded birds, that is at once familiar and yet hauntingly mysterious. His current retrospective exhibition of 94 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Whitney Museum shows what an increasing number of collectors and critics have come to realize: Painter Graves at 45 has developed one of the most successful, personalized idioms...
...suspicion of Mayflowering Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside the Catholic Church. Even the schoolteachers of Ohio have reason to dislike him (he once vetoed a pay raise). He is a mystic who plays the violin or reads the poems of Robert Burns when he is moody, who keeps his own counsel, and who often agonizes in his own indecision. He runs from friends offering advice or seeking favors. He is intensely emotional, is sometimes moved to tears by the pathos...
...makes islands of trees, very Oriental. This dissolves into misty atmosphere and double horizons. There's a vertical and horizontal thing going on, with the trees making the verticals." But Morris punctures the critics who have made a cult of the North west's Orient-influenced mysticism: "I guess I've got a mysticism that isn't mystic. If it looks Oriental, it is because of similar environments. Remember, in the Orient nature was always the teacher...
...regard to final exams, however, most Departments still observe the mystic rite of keeping the blue books for several months and then burning them. In June this may be defensible, since most students have left Cambridge by the time the books are corrected. But in the fall term there seems no reason why half-courses like History 61a and Comparative Literature 166 should continue to withhold final exam books from their authors. If a man has read a few thousand words for the course and written a three-hour examination, he deserves to know just...
...stylistic history of modern English art could be written without a mention of this artist," intoned London's Times last week, "but to omit him is to miss one of the most remarkable figures of the century." The Manchester Guardian agreed: "The most original artist of time a mystic to whom nothing is commonplace." The painter in question was Britain's puckish, eccentric Stanley Spencer, 64, who was being honored last week with a retrospective of 83 oils at London's Tate Gallery. The paintings represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted...