Word: sensuousness
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...society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
...Caterpillars. Owen was born in sleepy Shropshire. His father was a railway engineer; his mother had a taste for culture. Shy, moody, frail, Owen began writing melancholy, softly sensuous verse in his teens, dealing generally with "golden gardens and sweet glooms." Since his family did not have the money to send him to college, he went to France as a tutor. While there, war broke out. Owen had no desire to get involved. He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe...
Metaphysically Close. The revival of Strauss's music is a vivid demonstration that his claim on modern audiences is genuine. His songs are colorful and metaphysically close to the spirit of their texts. His operas are both sensuous and profound. His orchestral works are harmonically infallible. The music he wrote at 80 is clearly the work of the man who at 24 wrote Don Juan: the work of 60 years is united by an amazingly steady vocabulary. But Strauss saved for the end the most revealing expressions of his artistic philosophy. Having been judged a walking anachronism, he felt...
PHILIP EVERGOOD-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd. American-born, English-educated (Eton, Cambridge). Evergood saturates his paintings with biting wit and sharp social commentaries. His sensuous figures are caught in a Rabelaisian revelry of human rapacity and foolishness. Among the oils, watercolors and drawings: a wistful Look Homeward, Marilyn. Through...
MODEST CUIXART-Bonino, 7 West 57th. Spanish Painter Cuixart mixes his own concoction of materials, juxtaposes baroque designs with flesh-colored cubist construction. Sensuous red and black lines speak of darkness and calamity. Through...