Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant, single theme, which Biographer Seuphor aptly calls "a kind of gigantic, plastic fugue, which it took twenty-nine years to play...
Toying with its theme of race relations under the palms, Island abounds in mixed-blood romances without showing any interracial kisses. A dusky lovely (seductively portrayed by Dorothy Dandridge) easily captures the governor's panting aide-de-camp. Another temptress (Joan Collins), led for a while to believe she has Negro blood, drags the governor's son into sudden paternity. Her half brother (James Mason), who really does have Negro blood, imagines that he is also a cuckold, and so murders his supposed rival in a fit of pique. The movie's single solid acting...
...Orleans newspaper and the initial O. because it is "about the easiest letter written." These first stories have all the professionalism of his later work-they are sentimental, comic, marvelously contrived and carry a sting of surprise at the end. Many turn on what was to be a constant theme for O. Henry: the vindication of a man who has seemingly forfeited all claim to respect...
When Edvard was 14. his elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. The delayed impact of his sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
Jealousy & Sensuality. Munch's development of his other theme-man's impotence before the power of ferocious womanhood-would seem ludicrous if it had not so obviously wrung anguish from the painter, driven him close to madness. The exact identification of the woman who so long tantalized Munch has never been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist...