Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made in woodcutting when the designs of great artists were cut on the block by woodcutters who had gained skill by years of experience, is shown in examples from the work of Durer and Holbein. There are prints from the great series of woodcuts designed by Durer,--the Apocalypse, Passion, Small Passion, and Life of the Virgin,--and from Holbein's Dance of Death and Old Testament...
...playwright who attempts to infuse into his drama the age-old themes of passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...
...Passion Flower" now at the Plymouth Theatre, is a tale of strange love, jealousy, and "vengeance from the other world". It contains few highly inspired passages, but moves with a steadily-increasing impetus toward the final catastrophe. At times, it is true, the action drags, but there is nevertheless an underlying current of intensity that never fails to hold the attention. That this intensity can be successfully founded on so melodramatic a theme--the theme of a man driven to wicked love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author...
...Arts, and lecturer at the University on the History of Engraving, will give a lecture on Flerentine Engraving at 4.30 this afternoon in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. He will touch on several different phases of the subject: Laurentian Florence. The master of the Larger Vieuns Passion, Engravings in the Fine Manner, Msso Finiguerrs and His School, and The Planets...
...aware that there are many honest workers in painting as well as in literature who object to criticism entirely. They are quite right. Their work stands in no intellectual relation to their age. It brings us no new element of pleasure. It suggests no fresh departure of thought, or passion, or beauty, it should not be spoken of. It should be left to the oblivion that it deserves. Intentions...