Word: timeless
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Oliver! Lionel Bart, 31, is not too proud to help Charles Dickens, Immortal. In "freely adapting" Oliver Twist, Britisher Bart, who wrote book, music and lyrics, has blue-penciled out the socially conscious harshness of Dickens, and mauve-penciled in the timeless hokum of Showland...
...form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, awaare of no thing but art (absolutely no anti...
Outer Mongolia, says Sochurek, is basically two nations. One is the timeless meadowlands of Central Asia where nomads pasture their flocks and herds just as they did centuries ago under the rule of their great hero-king, Genghis Khan. Outer Mongolia has more yurts (circular, felt-covered tents) than houses, and more cattle (21 million) than people (1,000,000). Mongols are born to the saddle, lasso their horses with nooses at the end of long poles, make a strong wine from fermented cow's milk and feast on such dainties as yak butter delicately flavored with yak urine...
...Wyeth exhibition ever held. In all his work, whether drawing, watercolor or tempera, there is no mistaking the impeccable technique, no ignoring the tense, if quiet, drama being played out within every frame. The America that Wyeth paints is only superficially the America of today; basically, it is a timeless place with timeless preoccupations. The long, long past of man and his earth is implicit in every Wyeth painting: his trees seem weighted by memories, his rooms are filled with ghosts...
...portraits, he proved that he could catch a subject's inner being, but his nudes go far beyond the limitations of the individual. U.S. Critic Peter Selz probably summed up Marées' contribution best when he noted that the artist always treated his nudes as "timeless creations of nature. Their significance is never that of the incidental but of some universal law." It was this quality that enabled Marées to span the ages and to search out eternal truths that lie beyond outward appearances. As he put it when writing about the drawings of Michelangelo...