Word: seurat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium of personality. Only the uninitiate would complain that Seurat should have painted in strokes...
...time in its history, however, the Met would spend good money for Picassos. The two it chose were from eras when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...
...Chicago Art Institute's own great modern painting by the 19th-Century French Artist Georges Seurat-Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte Island, often called the finest single picture of its period...
...Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit...
...early life Marsden Hartley had stumbled from school to school and manner to manner, echoing such modern European masters as Cezanne, Seurat, Rousseau, Rouault and the violent German