Word: abstractly
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...epic film on an indie budget ($35 million), shooting in natural light - and, praise be, on the original Virginia terrain, not in Romania or New Zealand - Malick dramatizes the cultural collision with images of rapturous beauty. It may take a fresh set of eyes to discover this nearly abstract vision. But you?ll revel in the film if, like Capt. Smith, you surrender to the surroundings and... look closer...
...work with a simple message: war is bad. A woman rides sidesaddle over the dead through devastated terrain, waving a sword and a blazing torch. It is unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens, horse and drooping leaves, in an abstract way that was admired by painter Paul Gauguin. Eventually, Rousseau was adopted by an avant-garde circle that also included the young painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They nicknamed him Le Douanier (the customs man), and traded untrustworthy anecdotes about his gullibility. "These were artists chucking the rule...
Indeed, the class’ work is extremely varied?looking around the room there are canvases of children, buildings, dogs, or even more abstract works. According to one graduate student, Jooe Kim, this diversity has allowed her to learn by looking around the room...
...more I put into The Crimson, the more I gained—and from observation (and numerous professional interviews), that’s the experience of everyone else too. But besides being smart and dedicated, in the abstract, it always, always helps to know a couple of the people who are currently in power. This straight-from-Taiwan, formerly-teetotaling, deadly earnest girl never had those social networks...
...design, also by Burkle, is so strikingly minimalist that the walls seem like blank canvases. In fact, when Berenger’s friend Jean (Michael B. Hoagland ’07) throws up during his sickness, the green vomit becomes art as it drips down the wall in abstract expressionistic splendor...