Word: somberness
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Picked by a heavily conservative jury, the other prizewinners were equally somber, equally right of center: Andrew Wyeth's near-photographic Christina Olsen took second, and Karl Zerbe's cluttered but technically clever Actors took third. Wyeth's almost monochromatic study showed that conservatism in art need not imply lack of imagination. Son of famed illustrator N. C. (Treasure Island) Wyeth, he had done justice to his drab subject in a way fresh enough to stop the eye, and hold the mind...
...Leigh: "I disagree. I think it is very somber...
...Maurice Sterne's Approaching Storm and William Thon's Life Saving Station looked bigger than they actually were. Each was a first-rate example of a kind of impressionism U.S. painters seem to excel at-somber, broadly painted pictures of nature in turmoil...
...Japan completed (TIME, Aug. 16), retiring Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger debarked at San Francisco, acknowledged a salute with an expression that suggested thoughts of the somber past (see cut). His wife, with a happy gasp as she spotted a friend on the dock, seemed more concerned with the pleasant present...
...Sistine Ceiling, and the 20 months spent painting on his back had half blinded him (for some time he could read letters only by holding them over his head). The Sistine Ceiling had been a hymn to creation; the Medici Chapel, De Tolnay believes, was to be a more somber hymn to immortality. Michelangelo failed to finish it. After 14 years of constantly interrupted work, the master left Florence to paint the Last Judgment for Pope Paul III in Rome, and never got home again...