Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tune of the bicentennial, the orchestra will open with a performance of Appalachian Spring, a suite from the Pulitzer prize-winning ballet by prominent American composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...
...lower expectations-or at least shift them toward other levels of government that have some hope of satisfying these expectations." If the crisis really does teach the city to match its swollen expectations to its shrunken means, New York-with its rich concentration of talents and resources -might pioneer a new way of life for the American city...
...artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French tried to claim him as a true Parisian in whom the Central European heritage was aesthetically unimportant...
...right that the model's pose, monumental as it is, should mimic that of Michel angelo's Leda). The problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential chronographs of pioneer Photographer Etienne-Jules Marcy-multiple exposures that bridged the gap between still photography and the movie cam era. His pastel studies of his wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like...
...like the work of many another pioneer abstractionist with high spiritual ideals and an overoptimistic belief in the powers of art, Kupka's painting remains somewhat hermetic-at least in terms of its declared ambitions. About his historical precedence, there is no doubt...