Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...famous Picador. Almost overnight he was hailed as the founder of a new school of stovepipe art, and his reputation was to follow him across the Atlantic when he arrived in the U.S. in 1929. He made three more such things "which was scraps," and then abandoned the movement to others. "The human form," he says. "I like it. I am Mediterraneo after all. and we are close to earth...
...confused with mere ceremonial. "The rhetoric of great human speech is a ritual," says Lynch, "but I have heard it too often torn to the tatters of 'meaningful fact' by fine actors who were intent on showing that they could enter into each line and syllable and movement of the body, thus giving personality and modernity to every fact. The lines were no longer allowed to float out in the air as ritual victories...
Although France's "New Realists'' form one of the few distinct literary schools to appear since World War II. the movement is neither wholly new nor wholly realistic...
...bums ("America's only 'leisure class' "), drew the men and women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog. The waitresses and working girls about the square had a special fascination, for they, too, represented movement. In the U.S., says Isabel Bishop, giving an artist's nod to sociology, the working girl has no intention of standing still: she is determined to move up in the world, and "all her children will go to college." As the years passed, the Bishop Girl became a kind...
More recently, Artist Bishop has become increasingly fascinated by the subway. "Why? I wish I knew! But here people are always going or coming. This is not a place to stay; there is always movement." She can give the Union Square station some of the mystery of a cathedral; yet her people make their entrances and exits, and the trains rush in and out again, and life moves on. Her problem is what it has always been: how to catch the fleeting moment without freezing its flight. Isabel Bishop's brush creates a vibrant shimmer and veils her everyday...