purple
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purple originally, a crimson dye obtained from some molluscs, formerly used for fabric worn by an emperor or senior magistrate in ancient Rome or Byzantium; in figurative use, imperial, royal. In later use, purple came to be used for a colour intermediate between red and blue.
Purple as a colour has symbolic connotations of penitence and mourning, especially as an ecclesiastical colour; in literary and poetic use, it may refer to the colour of blood.
Recorded from Old English (describing the clothing of an emperor) the word comes via Latin
purpura ‘purple’ from Greek
porphura, denoting molluscs that yielded a crimson dye, or cloth dyed with this.
Purple Heart in the US, a decoration for those wounded or killed in action, established in 1782 and re-established in 1932. Purple heart was also a slang term for amphetamines (from their colour and shape) in the 1960s.
purple passage an elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition; an alternative name is
purple patch. The term is a translation of Latin
purpureus pannus, and comes from the Roman poet Horace's
Ars Poetica, ‘Works of serious purpose and grand promises often have a purple patch or two stitched on, to shine far and wide.’
See also
born in the purple,
Tyrian purple at Tyre.
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Old Bauhaus dances given new life
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Performance has been busy restoring three Oskar Schlemmer dances from the 1920s; Foothold...and Saturday at Alverno College. Schlemmer created them while teaching and...internationally influential figures. Schlemmer (1888-1943) was a painter...
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As history, Bauhaus Dances are consistently intriguing
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/6/1986; ; 700+ words
; Bauhaus Dances Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Dances, directed and...history lover in me was fascinated by Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Dances, which opened...after leaving Germany. As dance, Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Dances were often dull...
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Poles align in local dance revival
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/10/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...student knows of Bauhaus experimenter Oskar Schlemmer - - grainy black-and-white...Dance Performance, will revive Schlemmer's 1927 "Pole Dance" for the...young audience. Cool approach Schlemmer was part of the German Bauhaus...
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Foothold's '30s pieces hold interest
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/20/2004; ; 684 words
; ...Foothold Dance Performance has taken up Oskar Schlemmer, and he could do the company nothing but good. Schlemmer's "Pole Dance," "Hoop Dance" and "Gesture Dance," all from Schlemmer's days at the Bauhaus in Germany during...
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Artists rediscover Bauhaus
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/3/1986; ; 670 words
; ...group called the Bauhaus Dances of Oskar Schlemmer. The four-member, New York...dancer Debra McCall, who heads the Schlemmer group, started reconstructing...dances in 1980 after tracking down Schlemmer's notes in a half-forgotten...
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Abraham through a crystal ball. (production of Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's opera 'The Cave') (Approaches)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...at most directed by remote control? Yes! It is only a question of time and money."--Oskar Schlemmer, Diaries, 1926 Theorist Oskar Schlemmer saw mechanical theatre as a way of keeping the artist-ego in check, but his dematerialized...
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The once and future Bauhaus. (two exhibitions of Bauhaus art in Weimar and Dessau, Germany)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Bauhaus masters such as Kandinsky, Schlemmer, Klee and Feininger hanging once...Moholy-Nagy, Richard Oelze, Oskar Schlemmer and Fritz Winter). These works...works lent by Deutsche Bank were Schlemmer's precise, post-Bauhaus watercolor...
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Architecture: What Zaha Hadid next When a new exhibition at the Hayward on the relationship between art and fashion needed a designer, an architect who wears Manolo stilettos and Miyake pleats was the obvious choice.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/2/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Fashion, shows a little statue by Oskar Schlemmer, head of the Bauhaus school in 1925...columns inspired by the diagonal slashes Oskar Schlemmer put on a theatrical mask. It could...little ballet-dancer sculpture by Oskar Schlemm
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Florian Pumhosl: Galerie Krobath Wimmer.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; What does Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet, 1916, have to...others. The avant-garde filmmaker Oskar Fischinger was a practitioner of the...back-grounds can be associated with Schlemmer's stereometric bodies, whereas in...
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Pictures that escaped the Gestapo
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Kirchner; and a few modernists like Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and Ernest Wilhelm Nay. It also includes hundreds...reflected in the works of his pupils Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer, Otto Meyer-Amden and Ida Kerkovius, which are...
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Oskar Schlemmer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) was a German painter, sculptor, and stage designer. His single subject was the human figure, which he reduced to puppet-like, two-dimensional shapes that were expressive of the human body...
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Schlemmer, Oskar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Schlemmer, Oskar (1888–1943). German painter...x2019; (Royal Academy, London, 1985), Schlemmer is described as ‘one of the...translation is The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer (1972).
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Moll, Oskar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Moll, Oskar (1875–1947). German painter. He was born in Brieg...Several distinguished artists, including Otto Müller and Oskar Schlemmer , came to teach there at his invitation. In 1934 Moll was dismissed...
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Mary Wigman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...found in Hanya Holm, "The Mary Wigman I Know," in Walter Sorell, editor, The Dance Has Many Faces, 2d ed. rev. (1966), and in Ernst Scheyer, "The Shape of Space: The Art of Mary Wigman and Oskar Schlemmer," Dance Perspe
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Baumeister, Willi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...xF6;lzel . Between 1911 and 1914 he had several stays in Paris (sometimes in company with his close friend Oskar Schlemmer ) and his early work was influenced by Cubism . After military service in the First World War, he began to develop...
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