Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cellini's first hint that he had found something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini dissolved the glue between the canvas and the panel on which it was mounted. Slowly, with utmost caution, he peeled back the canvas, preserving it in the process. On the panel underneath was an encaustic painting which churchmen of the Middle Ages had apparently thought too old-fashioned to keep...
...section of contemporary U.S. archi-texture. Among the large scale-models and ceiling-high photomurals: Pittsburgh's aluminum-sheathed Alcoa Building, Manhattan's stilt-borne Lever House, Chicago's glass towers by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright's laboratory for the Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wis. Spotlighted in a second gallery, blacked out with velvet draperies, were a host of machine-made objects from frying pans and plastic cups to oyster forks. Surveying this invasion of an art gallery by kitchen utensils, one indignant dowager demanded: "Man Dieu, is this a trade...
...meticulously rendered crutches, melon-shaped buttocks and limp watches dramatically set against elongated dream vistas. But when Dali moved his subconscious props into religious art after World War II, his work left the critics cold. For his recent Manhattan show Dali personally grabbed the limelight by mugging with his wax-bean mustache, but his work drew a bouquet of cabbages. His smooth-as-melted-ice-cream paint surfaces reminded one critic of "old miniatures painted on celluloid." Other critics deplored the "vacant trivialities" in the show...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
Roussel: Trio, Op. 40 (Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute; Joseph de Pasquale, viola; Samuel Mayes, cello; Boston). Fine first-desk players of the Boston Symphony combine tones to wax some of the most cheerful chamber music of the century...