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...paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there appeared one gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar who had read Freud, might have so pictured the green and perpendicular avenues of his morning...
...famed paintings. These were not prints, photographs, copies, but facsimiles, produced according to a new and secret formula, to be known as Belvedere Facsimiles. Made in Vienna by one Ulf Seidl, painter, aided by scientific associates, their purpose was to reproduce, not merely the drawing, the light and shade, the color, the texture of the original painting, but to reproduce perfectly and precisely all these details, so that the appearance of the reproduction should be identical with the appearance of the original. In this purpose the Belvedere facsimiles succeeded to an amazing degree. From the walls of the small gallery...
...Bossy" is the original apostle of progress. When the old shade trees of a colonial are in the way of a filling station site, they must come down. The world moves on, and those who obstrud its progress can be converted to boosterism in the manner of His Honor. He was arrested afterwards, but not before as he modestly acknowledged in his inaugural address, had, "bounced his first off the then Mayor...
...acting was all purple and gold, particularly as the play proceeded, when it should have been cold grey. Yet to many people her uncanny magnetism passed for sincerity. With a sound experienced company around her the whole performance hinted again and again that the play was just a shade too good for them...
...Packard reverses the wire, the student hears his own voice and may at will correct it. For by simply pressing a lever the student with a little practice may transpose a second record on top of the original. The machine in this case automatically erases and captures the new shade of tone. In the practice of set speeches or the rehearsal of a difficult scene in a play, this ability of the telegraphone to change its record of the student's voice proves invaluable. And after the period of instruction, at the will of the instructor, the record...