Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auto credit has not already broken through the ceiling, it has definitely begun to crack the plaster...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
...Ungodly & Ungainly." As Le Corbusier's chapel in rough concrete and white plaster began to take form atop Haut Lieu, Ronchamp villagers threw up their hands in horror. The Walls, instead of rising straight upwards, sloped inward or outward like sets for a surrealist movie. The ceiling sagged like a tent ceiling. The main church tower, looking like an ocean liner's funnel, and two lesser towers served only as light wells for chapels within...
...Vision. He found that "The God of Scholasticism was unworshipable. Nor do Roman Catholics worship Him. They cannot. They worship the Sacred Heart, the Virgin, and the Saints . . . To me Roman Catholicism seemed one of two things: either a set of dry philosophical formulae or else a range of plaster-cast statues . . . What I wanted was no vision of the intellect, but resurrection. It was the doctrine of bodily resurrection which held me by an unbreakable bond to the Christian religion, as it had held St. Paul...
Though the American room was closed for refurbishing, and in a plaster-splashed state of disarray, Molotov got a good look at contemporary American abstractions, the kind of thing condemned in the periodic Soviet blasts at "bourgeois, formalist art." Molotov came to a full halt before a painting called The Flying...