Word: symbolisme
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There was a certain ecclesiastical aptness to the occasion: the calendar feast day on which the council convened is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Yet many observers at the march saw a disparity between the symbolism and the reality? and in that disparity a measure of how much the...
Shortest in Time. As is their custom, Vatican aides managed to find an appropriate symbolism in the date chosen for Paul's trip: it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of San Francisco where the U.N. was born. Although it will be the longest of...
Cartooning the Gospels. Before Charlemagne, the barbarian art of Europe was a welter of interlace−a primitive, restless filling of space that spread tendrilous patterns across armor, manuscripts and utensils. The worldly, warring Emperor, who inspired the epic Song of Roland, brought back the three-dimensional image of man...
The Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal."
The clue comes when a shaggy midget makes his appearance during the cafe scene. Toulouse Latrec was not selected randomly, but rather takes his place as the true spiritual father of Pussycat. The artist who painted the cabarets and brothe's of turn-of-the century Paris, and who accepted...