Word: seene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little village of St. Sylvestre de Lotbiniére, 40 miles south of Quebec City, people found it hard to agree on the miracles reported at the Bélanger home. Week after week they had seen cars, many of them from the U.S., drive down the village's gravel road and stop before the Bélangers' whitewashed house. The visitors were given numbered tickets and ushered into a small, cluttered room. In the center was a round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes...
...going on." They recalled that when Father Edmond Pelletier of St. Sylvestre preached a sermon against the miracles, he became so ill that he had to leave the church. That did not stop him from condemning the "miracles" as "the most horrible exploitation of superstition I have ever seen...
According to the intrasubjectivists' manifesto, an intrasubjective painter is not inspired by anything visible, but "only by something he hasn't seen yet . . . He begins with nothingness. That is the only thing he copies. The rest he invents...
Modernist Jackson Pollock, whose crisscrossed canvases sometimes resemble a battlefield seen from 40,000 feet or a culture of bacteria seen through a microscope, had heretofore escaped precise definition. Now he appeared in the vanguard of the new movement, flanked by such other ultra-ultras as William Baziotes and Adolph Gottlieb...
...after spending 20 years trying to round up a complete collection, Art Dealer Gustave Michel finally located Lautrec's last and rarest poster, La Gitane, proceeded with plans for the Paris show. Later on, Michel hoped to send the show to the U.S., where few people had ever seen a complete set of Lautrec posters...