Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner of this old Europe, is conscious that today already the trumpets are sounding in a world that must throw down the cracked walls of puny particularism." The priests, said the Pope, should foster a "Catholic spirit that is ... capable of surpassing itself to reach others better without prejudice toward anyone...
...genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate symbolist. But back in the 1880s it was Bernard, at 20, just half Gauguin's age, who led the older man beyond impressionism and guided him toward the style that now defines him. Bernard was painting like Gauguin before Gauguin himself...
...once rebuffed him, and the young painter went to Pont-Aven in early August 1888 equipped with the latest avant-garde notions from the capital plus some theories of his own and the ability to expound them all brilliantly. He was working away from impressionistic effects on canvas toward a symbolism in which simplified forms would forcefully and expressively convey the meaning of the objects they symbolized...
Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...
Composer Laderman believes that if his notation demands more of both composer and choreographer it also offers them greater opportunities. It can go a long way, Laderman feels, toward closing the gap-between what is currently seen and what is heard in the dance theater...