Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once you get the hang of interpreting these things, it is like having a new world laid out before you. You know, for example, that 13 lines against a background of mud, colored not too dark, nor yet too light, would depict a carelessly raked garden, planted heavily to leeks, in a Tibetan lamasery...
...thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast of King Antiochus (/ Maccabees 6:17-46), a feat of self-sacrifice interpreted as prefiguring Christ's martyrdom. But many of Vicino Orsini's fantasies remain obscure. He set out to create a garden unlike any ever seen-and he succeeded...
...Easter story. Van Dyck chose to depict the high moment of treachery when Judas kisses Jesus, betraying his identity to the onrushing soldiers and servants of Jerusalem's chief priests and elders. For Van Dyck, who was Peter Paul Rubens' favorite pupil, such a scene of action-packed drama was an ideal subject. He gave it all of his young mastery of whirling shapes, lurid lighting and heightened emotion...
...Zhivago, a vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
...moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada," he explains. "For weeks I was obsessed by snow and winter. I finally painted this to get the obsession out of my system. I always try to depict nature as I see it." ¶ Dynasty (opposite), by Kenzo Okada, one of Japan's leading moderns, who now lives in Manhattan. Okada, who came to the U.S. in 1950 with a full-fledged Tokyo reputation, feels his work has become liberated in the U.S., now sells out his shows...