Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, to Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque, to Kees van Dongen and Henri Manguin...
Tricolors and Parasols. This sim ple optimism, underlying the aggressive color, is the main difference between Fauvism and expressionism. Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images...
...School prides itself on its quickness to spot trends. When Watergate broke out, officials cobbled together a Crisis in Government course taught by Eugene McCarthy and Law Professors Raoul Berger and Philip Kurland. The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer match in 1972 prompted a sellout course on chess strategy. Says Allen Austill, dean of the school: "It's education in the marketplace. We can jump at things that look good. If they fade, they fade...
...Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, gave the firm a "very high recommendation" in a meeting with the mayor two weeks ago, Herbert P. Gleason, corporation counsel to the city of Boston, said...
Mayor Kevin H. White plans to ask Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at the Law School, to help construct a legal brief challenging court decisions ordering forced busing in Boston, an official close to the mayor said yesterday...