Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking as cool as ever. When she died, he turned from palace to street life, found it every bit as weird. He was the first social commentator in art to recognize and dispense with the unconscious snobbism of picturesque effects...
...stood in a vestibule which was painted pitch black. The only light came from the yellow eyes of a weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence...
...gooders." he says. "It is harshly real." He once told an interviewer: "The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right-you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves...
...persuasive. It would sacrifice the adventurousness that often lies at the heart of art for the sake of mild, easy-to-take conformity. Hartford's oldfashioned black powder, however, did contain enough grains of justification and documentation to rattle those ivory towers from which weird obscurities are foisted on the public. And his call for greater public participation in art matters was worth a hearty cheer...
Giacometti plunged into an era of strange experimentation. Friends stopping by his studio found him working 48 hours at a stretch, chain-smoking and muttering as he danced and lunged with a penknife before a hardened clay block. Some of his works took on weird, elongated shapes; others were heads little larger than peanuts. Giacometti insists that he did not try to do it that way; it simply happened. "I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle. "There...