Word: styles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are worth while things is this show, a few engaging works here and there which reveal new or accustomed brilliance in the styles of major moderns. A Mondrian Composition in his familiar pure style looks as neat and as pleasing as the calm pictures of his seventeenth-century fellow country man, De Hooch...
Leger's early work has a rugged texture, and gruff and brusque approach to subject matter that his smooth-surfaced later pictures lack. TheSmokers of 1911 and Variations of Form of 1913 show this style at its most robust and most assertive. Their power is unparalleled in the rest of the show...
Joel Sachs was the soloist, and though he was always musical his Bach seemed to me too fragile in places and too brusque in others. The employment of a Debussy pianissimo with generous use of the pedal is not always ideally suited to the baroque style. Yet Mr. Sachs showed he could play firmly and resonantly if he chose, even in mezza voce. The orchestral sections were rhythmical and well phrased...
...relent, and Mabe began to paint again. Two years ago he decided to make the break, sold out the family's small plot of land at a loss and set off for Sao Paulo to paint, and sell ties. On his own, he developed his present style, in which a basic, slashing, abstract expressionist manner is given style by hints of the elegant lines of Japanese calligraphy and architecture...
...empirical style was deeply shared by his associates. The flavor of the man and his time was caught by George Bernard Shaw, who worked briefly for an Edison company in London in 1879 and whose novel, The Irrational Knot, had an Edisonian hero. Edison's American employees, said Shaw, were "free-souled creatures, excellent company; sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." Every one of them, Shaw noted, "adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy...