Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hadrian's Wall. Today an invisible Hadrian's wall still divides British art into a realm of excitable, Celtic imagination that runs from Blake to Bacon on one side and a John Bull love of country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...
Painter Sutherland has also jumped over the wall toward realism in his portraits, including his controversial Winston Churchill (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954). An even more direct approach, inspired by the drab realities of postwar Britain, is the young, vigorous "Kitchen Sink" school with painters such as Jack Smith, 28, and Edward Middleditch, 33, taking for their subjects the groceries on a kitchen table, teapots, stoves and even...
Against Penn the week before, the Crimson forward wall just crumbled, but Saturday it did a surprisingly strong job. The Tigers, without the services of fullback Hewes Agnew after the first period, found it difficult to gain much rushing, but once again the Harvard pass defense made a hero out of a comparative unknown--this time, substitute Jim Mottley. Mottley completed nine out of ten passes, including two for touchdowns. He also scored one himself, on a 20-yard...
...found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
Home Run. In Antwerp, Belgium, surprised while looting a house, Burglar Raymond Raets fled, scrambled over a ninefoot wall, found himself inside the Antwerp prison...