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...most other players, including Shaw's great rival Goodman, the clarinet did not make this transition -- at least not without sacrificing its warmth and lyricism -- which is why it soon was eclipsed by the saxophone as a primary jazz voice. But here Shaw effortlessly absorbs some of bop's angular chromaticism, and his out-of-rhythm codas, all fluttery murmurings or boiling surges of notes, seem to anticipate the free-form jazz of the '60s and '70s. These last recordings, like so much in his career, raise the essential Shaw perplexity: the richness of what was, the wistfulness of what...
Derain demonstrates his love for contour in his watercolors. Whether the contours are angular, as in "Personnages," or sinuous, as in "Nude, 1935," the use of line is Derain's primary tool of manipulation...
Just when one has absorbed his wonderful ability to create a live image with "Notebook 2, Drawing 25," one encounters another sketch of his which contradicts everything that he accomplished in the prior sketch. His forms are angular and two-dimensional in "Notebook 3, Drawing 10." Moore's versatility is evident, and thus, rather than define his style, it is more sensible to simply acknowledge his multiple artistic skills...
...hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
Wang next produced a study of the 1987 angular solar eclipse. This study revealed the presence of a shadow on the moon's side which Wang correctly identified as an Orientale Basin, an indentation created by a meteor...