Word: ninteenth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...
...consistently convince and impress us. The sheer force of the narrative that Hughes crafts from the most basis elements of the city--its buildings--arrives in the sensual pleasure of the writing. He takes on the architecture of the Eixample (the enlargement of the city which occurred in the ninteenth century--like Domenech and Gaudi--are never separated from the cultural context of Catalan modernisme and the anarchists' movements...