Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEOPLE MEET AND SWEET MUSIC FILLS THE HEART is an unlikely title for an even more unlikely film, a freewheeling satire on romantic melodramas and graphic sex movies. It comes as a pleasant relief in these Curious (Yellow) times.
Abstract art is losing some of its edge - or edges. Dozens of abstract painters have traded in their rulers for spray guns, mops and brushes. Similarly, some of the most severe minimalists indulged in a spot of color. The result was a group of painters loosely classified as "romantic minimalists...
Humphrey and Christensen do not, of course, depict gallant knights or maidens fair, as did 19th century Romantic painters. But the instinctive way in which their styles have evolved and the relaxed way in which they paint reflect the Romantic definition of the artist as propounded by John Ruskin. "The...
The English Romantics were inclined to place their bet on dreams. Essayist Charles Lamb wrote of a friend who used to measure aspiring poets by their answers to his question: "Young man, what sort of dreams have you?" Byron's poem The Dream took on aspects of a Romantic...
OPIUM AND THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION by Althhea Hayter. 388 pages. University of California. $7.50.