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Getty Center
Getty Center art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif., operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. Designed by architect Richard Meier , the center opened in 1997. The museum houses the... Read more |
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Jean Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty 1892-1976, American business executive, one of the richest men in the world during his life, b. Minneapolis, Minn. He inherited his father's oil business, George F. Getty, Inc., becoming its president and general manager in 1930. When it was reorganized (1956) as the Getty Oil... Read more |
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Richard Meier
Richard Meier , 1934-, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York "Five" or "white" architects, a group that emulated the early International style . In such projects as the Smith House in Darien, Conn. (1965-67), Meier... Read more |
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg , borough (1990 pop. 7,025), seat of Adams co., S Pa.; inc. 1806. There is agriculture and the production of furniture and metal goods. Gettysburg was settled c.1780 and is named for Gen. James Gettys, to whom its site was granted (17th cent.) by William Penn. The Gettysburg campaign ... Read more |
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Jacobus Vrel
Vrel, Jacobus (active 1654–62). Dutch painter, an enigmatic figure who has only recently gained recognition as one of the most charmingly idiosyncratic masters of his time. Nothing at all is recorded of his life, his name surviving solely through the signatures on some of his paintings.... Read more |
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Shane
SHANE USA, 1953 Director:George Stevens Production:Paramount Pictures; Technicolor, 35mm; running time: 118 minutes. Released 1953. Oscar for Best Cinematography-Color, 1953. Producer:George Stevens; associate producer:Ivan Moffat; ... Read more |
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Dialogue
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Lolita
LOLITA UK, 1962 Director:Stanley Kubrick Production:AA Productions. An Anya Productions/Transworld Pictures production, in association with Seven Arts Productions, for MGM; black and white; running time: 153 minutes; length: 13,798 feet. Released June... Read more |
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opera
opera drama set to music. Characteristics The libretto may be serious or comic, although neither form necessarily excludes elements of the other. Opera differs from operetta in its musical complexity and usually in its subject matter. It differs also from oratorio , which is customarily... Read more |
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performance art
performance art multimedia art form originating in the 1970s in which performance is the dominant mode of expression. Perfomance art may incorporate such elements as instrumental or electronic music, song, dance, television, film, sculpture, spoken dialogue, and storytelling. The roots of this art... Read more |
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dance notation
...Orchesographie. This book presents a fictional dialogue between a dancing master and his student, in which...Feuillet System’ represents the spatial execution of the steps as seen from a bird's eye view, thus establishing...dynamic relationship between notation, the ... |
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Good intentions, but a little unwieldy.(Life)
...last months. Despite the fact that he had set up some good spatial dialogues between some pieces, the feeling of d�j224...artworks so directly to what is primarily a political historical dialogue (one that we do know) forces them into a one-dimensional... |
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Oteiza: Making space for spiritual energy
...did not produce sculpture of ''spatial dialogue'' characterized by tensions between...the bodies, forecasting a later spatial consciousness. But a growing realization...apple core that still retains the spatial memory of the apple flesh eaten... |
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Denis Savary
...that resembles a subtly brushed abstract painting. With such a sensual interaction, Savary created an engaging spatial dialogue, using the gallery as a stage for art, and thus making viewing this show a unique experience, as one walked simultaneously... |
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Morningside exhibition for renowned landscape artist.(News)
...palette of colours in impressionist-inspired textured paintings. He is interested in the visual relationship and spatial dialogue between the sky above and trees and flora below. The skies in this artist's work are particularly detailed and... |
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The power of the African visionary.(Entertainment)
...potent art form. Put him on stage with the dancers and his body snakes to invisible rhythms, setting up dynamic spatial dialogue with his audience. Spearheading Okach's achievements with Gaara, Kenya's first dance company, which he founded... |
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Shifting impressions
...profound effect of his Scottish east coast walks and the keen awareness of vastness and light this has engendered. A spatial dialogue is achieved in these works, whereby the white gesso primer evokes the horizon line. Other works on display involve... |
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BRASH, BOLD, BENZON.(Entertainment)
...palette of colours in Impressionist-inspired, textured paintings. He is interested in the visual relationship and spatial dialogue between the sky above and trees and flora below. The skies in Benzon's work are particularly detailed and moody... |
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ARTONTHEMOVE.(Tonight Broadsheet)
...range of colours, in Impressionist-inspired textured paintings. He is interested in the visual relationship and spatial dialogue between the sky above and trees and flora below. The skies in Anton's work are particularly detailed and moody... |
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Art pals cook up a curate's egg.(Life)
...scene for a clever debate. But purposeful intervention in gallery space needs skilled navigation and the visual-spatial dialogue needs careful management. In this effort, it is individual pieces that offer (mostly one-line) arguments... |
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Integrated Spatial Information Solutions Enters Into Private Placement...
...related action, Integrated Spatial Information Solutions, Inc...Management has maintained a dialogue with the Panel over the past...third tranche." Integrated Spatial Information Solutions, Inc...statements. SOURCE Integrated Spatial Information Solutions, ... |
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