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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story was great. Your boy can write. And your other boy can paint like a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...will look at other Caravaggios, notably The Musicians recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan [see cut], you will see the same model reproduced in epicene triplicate, and undeniably recognizable as one of the Roman street boys that Caravaggio delighted to paint in languid poses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Gerald Johnson once wrote that "a man who has tried to play Mozart and failed, through that vain effort comes into a better position to understand the man who tried to paint the Sistine Madonna, and did." This is obviously an article of faith. You can never prove that it is true, because you can never measure such understanding. The Fine Arts Department does not hold to this faith; the Music department does not hold to this faith; the language departments are beginning to suspect that there just might be something in it, and believing this, they are beginning...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Creative Writing Comes of Age at Harvard | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

Still another approach to problem solving is that developed by Boston's Arthur D. Little Co., which uses a panel of seven thinkers from widely different professions-artists, engineers, social scientists, biologists, physicists, etc.-brings them together to hammer away at everything from improving paint to making easy-open cans. To date, 40 companies have gone to Little for help, and more than two dozen have asked it to set up similar panels in their own plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAINSTORMING: New Ways to Find New Ideas | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Black and white seem particularly appropriate to the Norwegian contemporary of Ibsen, Edvard Munch. The great expressiveness, the somber, even frightening quality of his colors-that-are-not-color blend with Munch's main preoccupations: death, passion, loneliness, and anxiety. As he noted in his diary, "No more painting of interiors with men reading and women knitting. They must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: In and Out of the Galleries | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

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