Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divine). The "divine" painter penetrates "with his thoughts the nature of everything in heaven and earth, and thus things flow out of his brush in accordance with the truth of the motif." No artist can be "divine" who is not something of a mystic. Some Chinese critics-understandably-think the "divine" is as much as any artist can hope to achieve...
...first concern was for his eggs, of which he had brought ten dozen for British poultry researchers. "You take three inbred Leghorn whites and three Rhode Island reds, crossbreed them, and you have excellent eggs," he explained with a cackle. He added: "I am accused of being a mystic, but not about chickens...
Like Giotto, Italy's first great painter, Městrović spent his boyhood as a penniless shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories...
...life of this strange mystic was said to have been filled with "former friends." But though he estranged many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert was the Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. In 1905, Maritain, then a God-seeking philosophy student, and his young wife, Raïssa, visited Léon Bloy for the first time. They found in him the spiritual inspiration they had been looking...
...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...