Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...director whose earlier films - Felicia's Journey, The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica - dealt with more abstract obsessions, Ararat is both personal and political. It premiered last September in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, and was enthusiastically received. The film has not yet been screened in Turkey. But with its scattered releases across Europe, Ararat is enabling a wider audience to explore a trauma that lives on today...
...just me, for the first time, finding that I’m able to see things in the paper,” Schaffer says of his first piece. He spent the next month and a half drawing as much as possible, quickly showing improvement. Though his art remained extremely abstract, distinct images were clearly visible in his work...
...your mom.” No, not the “your mom bakes great cookies” or even the standard vulgarity “your mom did [sexual expletive] to me last night”—instead it’s the simple, abstract musing of “your mom” that has caught on as one hot cultural commodity...
...meant to be insulting: “We don’t want to offend anybody—that’s why the shirts have a period at the end of the statement. We feel moms are important, especially ‘your mom’ in the abstract sense. That’s why we decided to put it on shirts,” she explains. The slogan for the company, “keeping your mom safe since 2003,” reflects Kassim’s same tongue-in-cheek sense of humor...
...particularly the combination of poetry and melancholy song, created an unusual and interesting context for the performance. As the ear heard words of the poem or song, the eye immediately sought a connection with the dancers’ movement. But connections are not ordinarily difficult to find in the abstract world of dance, and “Interiors” was no exception with its dimly veiled aura and somewhat artificial development...