Word: revolutionism
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Yet even if Filonov's work is intellectually driven, his singular style marks it out, beginning with his palette. In works like the gloomy Feast of Kings (1913), as Kruchenykh noted, he used a peculiar combination of "bloody red and greenish brown"; for his optimistic and joyful painting with the...
Filonov's career peaked in late 1929, when the Russian Museum organized his personal exhibition - and crashed just weeks later in early 1930, when the authorities decided first not to open the exhibition to the public, and then to disband it altogether as undesirable. Filonov managed to present his works...
The grim political situation in Lebanon today stands in marked contrast to the heady optimism, two years ago, of the so-called Cedar Revolution, the month-long series of street demonstrations triggered by the killing of Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in a massive Valentine's Day truck bomb...
The ensuing popular demonstrations - the so-called Cedar Revolution - put Syria to rout, at least temporarily. The war between Hizballah and Israel last year, however, did huge physical damage to Lebanon. And emboldened by a strengthened alliance with Tehran, Damascus and its Lebanese allies began to fight back, accusing the...
Ségolène Royal finally has finally acquiesced to an image she had angrily spurned: the Indulgent Mother of the French Republic. At the height of a critically important speech in her campaign for the presidency of France on Sunday, she took up the issue of the country...