Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reward of Cruelty, which shows the dissection of a murderer's corpse in gruesome detail. The exhibit also shows that, once they had learned their anatomy, many artists proceeded to paint the human form not as it was but as they thought it ought to be. The Fontainebleau school (started in the 16th century) created elegant cheesecake pinups of an elongated grace, their charms carefully exaggerated in some places, to which polite French art has remained faithful to this day. ("They change the hairdo," says Curator Mayor, "but never the girl...
...Misers" was originally produced at Fontainebleau in 1770. Its plot involves the standard operatic characters, young lovers, harsh uncles, with the eventual triumph of the lovers and reform of the miserly uncles...
Back in his candy shop last week, Adrien Dagory felt all hemmed in. "It's too stuffy indoors," said he. At week's end he took his wife and young son out camping under the pines of Fontainebleau Forest. There Adrien spent his day scrambling up & down piddling little 15-and 20-ft. rocks. "It's not the real thing," he explained, "but it helps to perfect your technique...
...three and the law of seven," and that the proper source of sexual energy is "Hydrogen 12." Gurdjieff picked up followers, funds, and his chief disciple, a stocky journalist and mathematician named P. D. Ouspensky. The Russian Revolution soon sent Gurdjieff and Ouspensky scurrying. Near Paris, at a Fontainebleau estate, Gurdjieff founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Ouspensky ended up in London and established the Gurdjieff Institute. It was this "ark" that Author Walker helped to build, and it was under Ouspensky that he began to study Gurdjieff's teachings...
...Gurdjieff, who died in 1949, enjoyed his peak vogue among highbrows in low spirits during the '203 when he operated an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau, France. Crux of his medical doctrine: that man has three natures, intellectual, emotional and instinctive, and gets ill when he develops one at the expense of the other two. Cures practiced at Fontainebleau included tree-chopping and complicated "dance-exercises" to any of 5,000-odd tunes composed by Gurdjieff. For Katherine Mansfield, he prescribed a stay in a cowloft, so that she coftld inhale the air the cows...