Word: woven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve paintings and seven wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
...snag has been in trying to make convincing a personality to justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...
...Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster. Coronation year was his year. The Abbey is Dean Norris' parish church; he was as responsible for the ecclesiastical details of last week's ceremony as the Duke of Norfolk was. for the civil. In copes of gold (woven for the Coronation of Charles II) his humblest prebendaries had places in the Abbey procession, while most of the Bishops of Britain, many of them Lords, sat in scarlet & white on the sidelines...
...beds they slept in, the antique crucifixes before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal...