Word: geometricism
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After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur...
Of WILY's three hard-driving Negro disk jockeys, two will be replaced by white men, one will remain: Sir Walter Raleigh, whose haughty, sardonic British accent seems to make hipsters flip. Says Raleigh, as he lays on such "crazy wax" as O Bop She Bop and Rockin'...
The major new figure to arise between the two wars was Max Beckmann, who by endlessly propounding the question "Who am I?" arrived at emblematic pictorial symbols that crowded his canvases to the bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists...
SIENA'S PIAZZO DEL CAMPO, like Rome's Forum, was originally a marketplace set between Siena's three fortified hills. Still the center of the most perfectly preserved medieval city in Italy, the piazza lacks the dramatic impact of Bernini's baroque creation, but it has...
Above the visitors was a two-ton chandelier of solid bronze inlaid with nickel; around them were porcelain and plaster tiles of blue, green and gold in geometric designs. Verses from the Koran and the 99 formal Arabic titles of Allah gleamed in gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings...