Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially liked Howard Fine's "Gladfall," a short solo that makes use of a broad range of dynamics--the studio formula for good choregraphy--to abstract Fine's highly specific performing persona, a match of sprite and white-face clown--something no studio could ever teach...
...company is small, with only 15 members, chosen on the basis of "technical strength and stage presence, "Druckman said. Company members do most of the choreography, taking a "very intellectual approach," Chin said. She added "the company tends to an extreme of modern dance--very abstract, almost experimental." But Druckman disagrees: "The different pieces have different feelings--some are more theatrical...
...cannot be separated from the wider ambitions of his painting. Neither can that of Matisse or the impressionists. Nor is there any real reason to suppose Noland could actually be to his generation what Matisse was to his. The scope and meaning of his art are too narrow and abstract for that. It takes more than talent and stripes-however delectable the color-to become a master. Robert Hughes
...painted the 31-ft. by 16-ft. canvas to hang in a 200-ft.-high geodesic dome designed by R. Buckminster Fuller for Montreal's Expo '67. But Guiding Red, Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler's biggest painting, has been rolled up in a warehouse ever since. Last week the work found a suitably grand setting: a 50-ft.-tall marble wall on the mezzanine of the south tower of Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. Why the title? Explains Frankenthaler: "I was guiding the red and j the red was guiding...
...certain continuity is present in seemingly chance words and images, in Bogarde's attack on his father's desire to disembowel people for artistic purposes, in the very preoccupations which mark the dinner conversation. The resonances are different, however, the tone flatter. Where the dialogue was highly abstract and the characters rigidly controlled, there was a sense that Gielgud and Resnais were attempting to penetrate to the very deepest level of reality through the haze of memory and perception. That this reality consists above all in the terrifying consciousness of guilt is the starting discovery of the dinner party sequence...