Word: instinctiveness
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Underlying Life. Even more surprising as a whole are Wyeth's new watercolors, pictures done swiftly in passion. His instinct for the medium has grown out of discipline, and his command of it is athletic-brushmanship like swordsmanship. Wyeth's Cormorants inhabit a small island off the Maine coast, near his summer home. "I rowed over," Wyeth says in his high, dry voice. "There was a terrific shrieking and neck-turning. The picture took only half an hour, but the birds kept dropping on me all the time. There was a strange feeling of aloneness -of the cormorants...
...welfare state kills the instinct of self-preservation. There's nothing man has to fight...
...superlative opinion of the exhibit. He went on to say that, nevertheless, this was the best show on Fifty-Seventh Street and not one easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman's taste which created the paradox. What the incident evokes is the fact that Lyonel Feininger's work is that of a painter's painter. He always commanded the respect of his fellow...
...Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.... Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive...
...Pinnacle. That same competitive instinct took Charlie Goren, driven by poverty and a desperate desire for recognition, to the very top of the world's bridge players, and it has kept him there for years. Whether measured by master points awarded in tournaments (5,791), trophies (some 2,000), income (about $150,000 a year, more than any other five bridge experts combined), fame (he is a household word wherever bridge is played) or influence (his bidding system is used around the world), Bachelor Goren is the king of the bridge aces. "If I stopped playing today," he gloatingly...