Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. While the lines of Peter Weiss's philosophical argument of the social revolutionary v. the anarchic egoist are a trifle jaded, the theatricality of his drama, as performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, is totally jarring to the unsuspecting...
...Hubert Van Eyck oil [March 25, p. 69], and mention of the advantages of the rare stamp [p. 88], made me check the value of the world's most valuable postage stamp, the British Guiana 1? of 1856. Last year this l-sq.-in. stamp was displayed at Royal Festival Hall in London, insured for a healthy $560,000-so the portable rare-painting market still has some distance to go to catch up with the portable rare stamp...
Soapsuds & Whitewash. Turner, who in his own lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
Aerial Auroras. Turner scorned the highly varnished, precisely glazed look of a "finished" painting. He wanted his paintings to show virtuoso brushwork (sometimes he even daubed with bread rather than bristles). Before exhibitions opened at the Royal Academy, artists traditionally varnished their canvases in sight of the public. Turner, instead, completed his. Spectators gawked as the academician, in top hat and frock coat, stood on a bench daubing away at his already hung oils. With his color box beside him, he mixed pigments in whatever was handy, even stale beer, to touch up details that would provide some visual reference...
...earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays...