Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mystic & Plastic...
William Blake's sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries...
...Manhattan, antenna-mustached "Nuclear Mystic" Salvador Dali, who is as artless about his publicity as he is about his surrealist painting, made his way back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort...
...marital quilt. Proud of the firm body her husband neglects, she swims in the crashing offshore combers, or takes up the foils with her son's fencing master. Nominally a Roman Catholic convert, Nobuko finds her true religion in the classic No plays, to her a kind of mystic opium...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...