Word: neoclassicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For six years he served an apprenticeship to the man he called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to...
After a while, Stravinsky's intention-the intention of writing purely abstract music-wins out, and the images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the...
Sullivan's major contribution was to establish the skyscraper as an architectural form in its own right. One of his best is Buffalo's Guaranty (now Prudential) Building (left), finished in 1895 at the peak of Sullivan's powers, just before his partnership with Adler broke up...
...Aaron Burr, decided it by sending him to Paris instead of London for training. The earnest student from Kingston, N.Y. struck the French capital in 1796, when Jacques-Louis David and his neoclassic followers were preparing the stage for Napoleon's posturings. Trapped in the doctrinaire icebox of neoclassicism, Vanderlyn conscientiously set about acquiring its basic asset: figure drawing. He also acquired its defects: stale colors and chill poses...
One Peppercorn for Rent. Vanderlyn cheerfully produced another string to his bow; he had brought back detailed perspective drawings of Versailles, which he now proposed to work up into an oil panorama. His admirers were so taken by this idea that they raised money to build Manhattan's first...