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Coffee to Brew a Storm. It is probably only legend that he used chocolate, milk, and soot in his work; but he did use coffee to portray a brewing storm, deliberately broke pen points to achieve a wider line, pecked his paintings with a knife or dirtied them with fingers to give the impression of mist. He could paint or draw a female nude with bold and simple strokes; he could also produce magnificent colored swirls or fascinating gloops that would seem at home in many modern galleries. In his drawing of a hanged man, inspired partly by the execution...
This oratorio is a troublesome one. Handel wanted to write an epic. But he wished to convey more monolithic artistic ideas than a narrative could portray, and so dispensed with distinct characters and made the story of the crossing of the Red Sea only the first half of the work. What then resulted is what one scholarly critic called "an overblown anthem"--a series of resounding proclamation of the Lord's might, many of them superb in their declamatory power--yet the whole work lacks drama...
...airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will be exposed to design as functional and dramatic as the airplane...
There is nothing bitter about Broderson's vision of the world, but he is drawn to themes of sadness and is fascinated by ritual. Just as he may portray a tale of rape and murder that has been repeated century after century by the Kabuki players of Japan, as in The Nun and the Skull, so he is drawn to the bull rings, where year after year man and beast have performed their ballet with death. Then he might do a painting of a little girl listening to "the sound of flowers," or of two praying nuns...
...12th to the 16th centuries, he owns some that date as late as the 18th century. "I simply buy the most beautiful things I can find," he says. The miniatures come from medieval books of songs, proverbs and prayers, or from the great Books of Hours. Though most portray religious subjects, there are scenes from the history of Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary paintings, they furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear...