Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to Great Society legislation Johnson is insatiable. So possessed is he by his vision of building a better life for every American that at times he seems ready to scoop up the country in his bare hands and mold it to suit him. In his domestic program, the present is already the past, and Johnson is looking forward to greater achievements in the future. No fewer than a dozen presidential task forces are laboring to come up with creative ideas and constructive approaches to such American problems as transportation, water pollution, education and urban affairs. No matter...
...great changes in artistic vision of the 20th century was the shift from the classical ideals of Greek and Roman statuary to a larger view that accepted primitive art as no less human and as equally beautiful. Artists, especially the cubists, began collecting African artifacts, were soon exploiting their untrammeled, expressionistic energy in their own painting; gradually sculpture long thought fit only for ethnological institutes began moving into galleries, museums and homes as objects of artistic merit. Yet this eager interest in African art could not have happened without the brief, tragic encounter of two civilizations...
...Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...
...chronology of his art shows (see color pages), few modern artists have passed through so many seasons of art with such persistent vision. For Chagall has lived through all the century's artisticisms, from cubism and surrealism to tachisme, and embraced none. Instead he has remained steadfast in the pursuit of his own midsummer night's dream, emptying it and re-emptying it, until it has become a distillation, universal in its appeal. Today his art is enjoyed by millions all over the world-whenever they pick up one of the books he illustrated, pray in the sanctuaries...
...that same year, Chagall was made commissioner of fine arts in Vitebsk by the newly formed Soviet government, and as a commissar he rapidly demonstrated that he was a divine idiot. He called for "revolutionary painters" and peppered the local party press with commissarty exhortations. His vision of the revolution was to make "ordinary houses into museums and the average citizen into a creator." Imagining that all the house painters of his native town were repressed artists, he spurred them on to decorating its drab buildings with folk imagery. When his superiors arrived from Moscow to find the walls covered...