Word: satyrize
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...compositions. Matisse's fauve years, with their hot drumfire of broken, dissonant color, were behind him. Now he was engaged in calming his art, endowing it with a magisterial breadth of form and outline, a simplicity of hue and an archaic, pre-classical subject matter. His Nymph and Satyr, 1909, belongs much more to the world of Hesiod than to the Renaissance vision of antiquity. Three colors: pink for the skin, blue for the strip of lake and green for the fields and hills. Two figures: the nymph tripped and falling, the satyr reaching down to seize...
Myth tells us that the god Apollo, whose instrument was the lyre, was challenged to a musical contest by a coarse satyr named Marsyas, who had learned to play the flute. Marsyas lost, and Apollo skinned him alive. In our day, this draconian triumph of reason over instinct has been reversed: Marsyas, the unrepressed goat-man, has won; the Rolling Stones are one of his incarnations. Unlike the Beatles-the very prototype of nice English working-class lads accepted everywhere, winning M.B.E.s from the Queen-the Stones from the start based their appeal partly on their reputation as delinquents. They...
...lift her skirt with a view to touching her. Several times a day he pursued her with assiduity, covering her with kisses on her entire body. And these aphrodisiac acts seemed the most natural thing in the world to him. Mme. Franconville justly called him a satyr...
...sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings...
...Fellini Satyr icon. Rome, Before Christ and After Fellini, with indelible images of surrealism and horror. The master was, once again, self-indulgent. But what indulgence! And what a self...