Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms and accompanying fog of cigarette smoke became his trademarks-along with a gift for popularizing abstract issues...
...STORY LINE women into the songs is as convoluted as the philosophical themes underlying them are abstract, but it basically emerges as follows: Kurata, a sort of interplanetary Kung-Fu champion, encounters and is challenged by a mysterious rival, Fu-Shen. Soundly trounced, the humiliated Kurata loses all that he holds most dear--his wife, his eyesight, his power and his status. To recover, he slips off to an ambiguous other world--"a physical and mental wilderness"--where he learns that by suffering and surviving he can become invulnerable. Then, having regained his strength, Kurata crosses back to the world...
...series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted in both reality and bronze. The forms play with composition and abstraction, juggling shapes. Never too sentimental, or too serious, Kieff...
...paintings entitled "The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950"-opened last week at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Organized by MOMA's painting curator Kynaston McShine, it sets out to expose a hidden thread in American art, the umbilical cord that connects such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko with the landscapists of the 19th century, like Albert Bierstadt and Edwin Church...
Celine, his biographer asserts, was an inveterate pessimist who conceived of truth as "a willingness to confront the worst without flinching." Although the novelist tirelessly seeks beauty in the bodies of women and the abstract movement of dance, a vision of catastrophe always prevails. For Celine, the ultimate truth was death, and the title of his first novel aptly describes the desolate trend of his written as a whole; it is A Journey to the End of the Night...