Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...west coast nostalgia merchants responsible for this picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...
They must lack vision of Art (for elsewise they had been artists, not philosophers...
...have extremely small beginnings"; "the progress of an artist in creation is always toward . . . greater significance," etc. Poet Karl (An Essay on Rime) Shapiro finds that "tigers have a dual significance" for Stephen Spender, that "poetry is but one form of expression of mystic or demonic vision...
Rooms for Tourists, like most of Hopper's work, has the strange clarity of something seen once for an instant by a passing driver. It is a familiar vision without any of the dullness familiarity brings. The house looms sharply in the long darkness of the night, and the light shining from its windows is warm as bed. The impression, and the invitation, are instantaneous; the road leads on past...
...assured the visitors that they toiled "in harmony [without any] need for discipline." Author St. John gave one of the girl workers an American lipstick, asking her "when she looked at it ... to remember that in our country there are young people who also have freshness and ideals and vision...