Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Postcards. Most visitors took home oil-painted vedute, facile, panoramic views of the city that predated the picture postcard. Canaletto was a vedutista with vision. Trained in theatrical scene painting, disciplined by Roman academicians, influenced by Dutch artists' oils of classical ruins, he swiftly caught the eye of visiting and resident English milords, who collected and commissioned such far-from-vedute fantasies as Tomb of Lord Sowers (see opposite page), a highlight of North America's first comprehensive Canaletto retrospective, which opened this week in Toronto...
Practical Romance. Elsewhere, Leibnitz and Newton were demonstrating man's command of his environment through advances in science. Sir Christopher Wren had surpassed romantic vision with brick and stone. Napoleon was soon to end forever Europe's old order. And in Venice, where romance had always been well salted with practicality, Canaletto's lucid art bridged the opposed worlds. He stands to this day, as it was said of his city, "between the morning and the evening lands...
...Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well; the term was the title of a 1914 book by British Political Psychologist Graham Wallas, and the idea is as old as Plato's Republic. Equally lackluster is Barry Goldwater's "In your heart you know...
...that would attract established authors. Fifty Grand, the first Hemingway story to be published by a major U.S. magazine, appeared in the Atlantic in 1927-after Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Scribner's had turned it down. Unwilling to rely solely on the editorial vision of literary agents, the Atlantic carefully read every unsolicited manuscript, a habit that persists to this day. "We publish more unsolicited material than any other national periodical," says Weeks...
...meticulous professionals who paint as if every brush stroke were their last. They are totally uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...