Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surrounded by his people and bedecked with jewelery, the godfather of soul surprised the experts by failing to break out into spontaneous song and dance numbers--instead choosing to eat his sandwich and quietly talk with his friends. Just as I was about to nail him with a few hard-hitting questions about the intimate details of his personal life and his work, my check came...
...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...
Well, the world did end and without my book review or anything resembling the odious practice of playing with another man's art, his soul, to please thousands of brain-addled air junkies who gulp the stuff like it could make their lives worth living. No, live alone, fair book, and prosper without the words of praise I can shower upon you in my giddy bout of pseudo-creativity...
...capitalism replaced concernfor the legacy of serfdom, and the realistpainters turned their eye to these new problems.The image of the peasant dominated many canvassesof the period; as Lecturer in History andLiterature Cathy Frierson has pointed out, it wasthe objective of many realist painters to"penetrate and master the peasant soul." IvanKramskoi's portrait, "Mina Moiseev" is the firstwork to confront visitors to the exhibit, and itgives clear insight into the Itinerant painter'sdetermination to study the psychological behaviorof the peasant. Using a restricted palette,Kramskoi does not idealize his subject, and therealism captures a sense of the wisdom, kindnessand ruggedness...
...BirchGrove" (1885-89) and "Silence" (1898) reflect theinfluence of the later French impressionists aswell: the interplay of the light on the trees andin the water, the looser brushstrokes and thelighter pallette combine to reveal what thepainter Nesterov has described as "that which ishumble and innermost within every Russianlandscape--its soul, its charm...