Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprisoned by the invading Japanese for five months: He returned home to stump the U.S., used his high-pitched. 240-word-per minute delivery to urge that trade be cut with Japan. "You have a choice between your silks and your sons," he warned American mothers. After Pearl Harbor proved him right, he was elected to Congress...
...paintings are depressing studies in black, grey and various shades of brown. Others are shrill compositions of hard whites and yellows, oranges and blues, set against a frame of green that is liberally sprinkled with scarlet and purple dots. In one, the colors blend into something resembling mother-of-pearl; another was obviously begun by rubbing together two pieces of cardboard wet with color to make what Strindberg called "automatic painting." The show is about to take the grand tour: when it closes in Ulm, it will move to the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Palais des Beaux...
Also in contract to the school of spontaneity was Alan Kemler's pointlessly disciplined see the pearl of night. Kemler has superimposed on tape six readings of a poem of his own and has carefully controlled sound qualities and interplay of voices. Whispers hissed above brisk utterances, and the sound swelled to an offensive cacophony which subsided with "love's a pool of blood/and death a soaring sparrow." The jerky rhythms were tedious and the sounds at times quite unpleasant. Use of total control in so artless a fashion shows just why the school of spontaneity has rebelled from fixed...
...hailed by the critics as "the greatest sculptor since Rodin." The fact was that he loathed Rodin. "Since photography," he said, "representation is unnecessary." His sculpto-paintings-many-colored shapes arranged, friezelike, upon a flat plane -were pioneer constructions. He boldly used glass, wood, clay, metal or mother-of-pearl to achieve new effects, often allowing the materials to shape their own destinies, much as today's abstractionists let their work grow out of itself. Long before the younger Henry Moore, he gouged holes in his sculpture to turn space inside out; often he would make concave what nature...
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