Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul was converted while riding on the road to Damascus by a sudden vision of the Risen Christ, who ap peared to him in the form of a blinding light that struck him to the ground...
...Viqor & Vision. Picasso's choice was for the airy figure, untitled but unmistakably feminine. Its graceful symmetry, sweeping lines and enigmatic features suggest more than a passing nod to U.S. tradition, which has usually portrayed Justice as a blindfolded goddess weighing scales, often combined with an eagle in flight...
...long as the sculpture stands. So is the equally nagging question, why Chicago? Says Hartmann: "It is a city not unlike Picasso. It is a volatile place. Besides, he began to love it, to think of it as a city of great beauty, vigor and vision." The only one, in fact, with the vigor and vision...
...unmentionable, immoral and illegal. It was a federal crime merely to send information about it through the mails. She was arrested eight times. Her zeal led to the breakup of her first marriage. Yet when she died last week of arteriosclerosis in Tucson at the age of 82, her vision had been realized beyond her dreams. Birth control, which to her meant the right of every woman to control the size of her own family, had become accepted in the U.S., and was spreading rapidly throughout the world...
Geometry & Optics. Once Vermeer's genius was recognized, it was difficult to understand how it could have been so long shrouded in obscurity. His serenity, harmony and purity of execution stand out from the raucous reality of his contemporaries like a vision from a nightmare. Yet Vermeer was very much a man of his time. Geometry was the cornerstone of 17th century scientific investigation; well aware of it, Vermeer laid out his paintings in a wizardly arrangement of planes, lines, cubes and cones. He also used the camera obscura, a forerunner of photography. In all probability, he was introduced...