There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo's solitary bachelor room with his sketches, asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna.

First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

Tilsley responded with two or three sketches, from which was selected the now-familiar red chalice.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

Kelly appeared in six of the sketches, one of which, " La Cumparsita ", became the basis of an extended Spanish number in Anchors Aweigh eight years later.

Mácha also authored a collection of autobiographical sketches titled Pictures From My Life, the 1835 – 36 novel Cikáni ( Gypsies ), and several individual poems, as well as a journal in which, among other things, he detailed his sexual encounters with Šomková.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

It was at Pembroke that Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became president in 1960.

Leonardo da Vinci adopted the principle to drive his theoretical helicopter, sketches of which involved a large canvas screw overhead.

Two Polish slave janitors of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide in early 1943 provided maps, sketches and reports to Polish Home Army Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the " rocket assembly hall ', ' experimental pit ', and ' launching tower '.

Saturday Night Live produced two famous sketches parodying the Original Series, " The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise " in 1976 and William Shatner's own " Get a life " sketch in 1986 ( which parodied the show's " trekkie " followers ).

" In line with Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama and preliminary sketches of the Arcades Project, Adorno likened philosophical interpretation to experiments which should be conducted " until they arrive at figurations in which the answers are legible, while the questions themselves vanish.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

* Commedia dell ' arte – a form of theatre characterized by masked " types " which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

** Commedia dell ' arte – a form of theatre characterized by masked " types " which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

There are however indications of some later unfulfilled operatic projects, which survive as parts or sketches of libretti, such as Il ritorno dell ' amore by Renato Simoni, Malena by Ettore Moschino, and La rosa di Pompei, also by Moschino ( dated " Naples, 20 May 1924 ").

Scrutiny of the sketches, which Ricordi later allowed scholars to analyze and sometimes publish, showed that Alfano actually did not even try to use most of Puccini's short sketches, with the exception of those with an obvious placement and one short theme he freely transformed and used for the sake of stylistic continuity.

* " The Mod, Mod World " segment, with its own signature tune, comprised brief sketches on a theme interspersed with film footage of female cast members go-go dancing in bikinis, their bodies painted with punchy phrases and pithy wordplay.

Square One comprised short sketches that introduced and applied concepts in mathematics such as counting, combinatorics, vulgar fractions, estimation, probability, and geometry.

In 2002, several sketches were comprised for the 2002 re-launch of Top of the Pops, entitled The All-New Top of the Pops.

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called " sketches ", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

His complete comics and selections from his sketchbooks have been published by Fantagraphics in seventeen volumes of comics and ten volumes of sketches to date.

A 1973 theatrical film titled Ten from Your Show of Shows featured ten sketches from the show edited together.

After the announcer announces the opening credits for the show, the first segment is a long, ten minute monologue by Leno, with quick one-liners about current events and brief comedy sketches occasionally mixed in.

) were voted on, after the number was whittled down to 50 characters, loose sketches were drawn, which were then reviewed by ' kid testers ' and finally reduced to ten resulting in the nine characters of the game, including the Eternal Champion.

The English painter John Constable visited Hadleigh in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle as preparation for ten oil sketches and a single painting.

In a letter to Banks from Port Jackson, dated 20 May 1802, Flinders offered this praise: “ was fortunate for science that two such men as Mr Brown and Mr Bauer have been selected, their application is beyond what I have been accustomed to see .” Writing to Banks ten days later, Brown reported that Bauer had made 350 plant sketches and 100 of animals, and had “ indeed been indefatigable and.

At a very early age Morland produced sketches of remarkable promise, exhibiting some at the Royal Academy in 1773, when he was but ten years old.

:* The Journal of Impossible Things from the two-part episode " Human Nature "/" The Family of Blood " contains sketches of all ten Doctors, with only Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor included.

At its peak, the group had ten members, but a large percentage of the sketches were written by one of these three.

In 1631, ten years after De Keyser ’ s death, Cornelis Danckertsz included the architect ’ s most important sketches in his book ’ Architectura Moderna ’.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

The first of the five books begins with some geographical background, and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Caesar's invasion in 55 BC.

The Mouse_ ( computing )# Early_mice | first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by William English ( computer engineer ) | Bill English from Engelbart's sketches.

Some people credit American, Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillian to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches.

" The Spanish Inquisition " is a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2, first broadcast 22 September 1970, parodying the real-life Spanish Inquisition.

For A series of Bird's the Palin / Jones team had their first experience of writing narrative instead of the short sketches they were accustomed to conceiving.

The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John La Farge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U. S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio.

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle was built in 400 AD, as portrayed in the unpublished first draft sketches.

While studies, sketches, and improvisations exist ( particularly of Composition II ), a Nazi raid on the Bauhaus in the 1930s resulted in the confiscation of Kandinsky's first three Compositions.

The first book sketches briefly the history of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian ( 305 ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to the death of Theodosius I ; the fifth and sixth, the most useful for historians, cover the period between 395 and 410, when Priscus Attalus was deposed ; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source.

The early sketches also usually featured odd introductions for all the characters, such as calling Link the flappable captain, Miss Piggy the flirtatious first mate, and referring to Dr. Strangepork as ' describable.

The first book of Hokusai's manga, sketches or caricatures that influenced the modern form of comics known by the same name, was published in 1814.

" This explanation was widely accepted when it was championed by Bruckner scholar Robert Haas, who was the chief editor of the first critical editions of Bruckner's works published by the International Bruckner Society ; it continues to be found in the majority of program notes and biographical sketches concerning Bruckner.

There have been several attempts to complete these sketches and prepare them for performance, as well as completions of his later sketches for an instrumental Finale, but only the first three movements of the symphony are usually performed.

Not surprisingly, Bosch is also one of the most revolutionary draftsmen in the history of art, producing some of the first autonomous sketches in Northern Europe.

When he arrived in New York, however, he found that he had left the sketches behind, and he had to reconstruct the first act from memory.

Wagner had first written of his intention to create a trilogy of operas in the August 1851 draft of " Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde " ( A Communication to My Friends ), but did not produce any sketches of the plot of Siegmund and Sieglinde until November.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions ; however, improvisation is not necessarily involved in all sketch comedy.

Paganini changed his mind about playing the piece himself when he saw the first sketches for the work ; he expressed misgivings over its outward lack of complexity.

The first of the unexecuted Gate Lodge, Auchinbothie ( 1901 ) sketches was realised as a mirrored pair of gatehouses to either side of the Achnabechan and The Artist's Cottage drives, also at Farr by Inverness.

Opposite sketches were used in the inaugural season of the show on CJOH in 1979 ( the first one, used in Episode Two, was submitted by a viewer ), but it was not until Whatever Turns You On that they became an integral part of the show.

" Hunting Wild Dogs " and " The Last of the Mohicans " were the first of fourteen unsigned Sullivan County sketches and tales that would appear in the Tribune between February and July 1892.