Word: ornamentalism
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...addition to the paintings, during his lifetime. Sert gave the Fogg the "Barcelona Series," a collection of prints also by Miro, and gave the University works by Calder and a pre-Columbian gold ornament collection...
...themes of privation and sardonic defiance are conveyed at first glance. The set, designed by Playwright Byrne, is the slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...will round off the zigs and zags either on top or bottom. Then they are taught to turn rows of circles into slightly slanted ovals. If they alternate these ovals with equally slanted lines, they have all the basic components of lower-case italic letters (and,incidentally, of architectural ornament through the ages). When youngsters master individual letters, they are taught to join them, although not all letters can be legibly connected. The capital letters are plain Roman capitals with a little swash here and there to celebrate the joy of writing...
...leaning majority, consisting of Jerry Brown's five choices and Stanley Mosk, named by Governor Pat Brown (with only Reagan Appointee Frank Richardson right of center). Thus the prospect is for more political quarrels that will do nothing to revive the prestige of what was once a peerless ornament of American jurisprudence. -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles
Neutra's intellectual origins were the same as those of his more famous fellow revolutionaries, Walter Gropius, Mies and LeCorbusier. As a student in Vienna, he deplored the degeneracy of dwelling in an ornamented past and longed for the exaltation of a pure and machine-made future. His hero was Adolf Loos, the architect who declared ornament a crime. But, like the other modern pioneers, Neutra was most deeply impressed by the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was published in Europe...