Word: superbness
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...fault? It is not so much that Lichtenstein is so bad that he resembles commercial art, but that commercial art is good because it has learned the practical lessons of Mondrian, Picasso and modern art. Because of their plentifulness and familiarity we take for granted and deprecate the superb graphics of magazines like Playboy, Esquire, and National Lampoon. But how many boring dull articles have we been snared into by eye-catching graphics? And in a hundred years, how many architecture students will be studying the prefabricated simplicity and functionality of a Jack...
...walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...
...society. He was a licensed vertical invader, conspicuous even in the notable roster of Edwardian eccentrics that stretched from the Cafe Royal to Bloomsbury. There had of course been English bohemians before, but none had seemed so obstreperously life-enhancing as Augustus John. As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist, the Great Lover, the Great Bohemian Enjoyer of Life. It was a cruelly ironic comment on his actual career, one which he did not accept himself but never effectively contradicted...
Swift Irregularity. So the current exhibition, Art of the Arab World, at Washington's Freer Gallery is not to be missed. Organized by Art Historian Esin Atil, from the encyclopedic stores of the gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging across a period of 800 years. It does not include Turkish or Persian work. As the name implies, the focus is on Arab art as such−mainly from Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...through the 1930s, forging friendly relations but no alliances with Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with the Internationale by British armament workers. Returning in 1943 to serve as Stalin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Maisky attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences before finishing...