Word: angularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lumpy Energy. In his suburban New York studio in Hastings, overlooking the Hudson River, Lipchitz kneads and molds the clay that retains a motile suppleness even when translated into hard bronze. The angular surfaces of his earlier cubism have filled out in a joyful exploding into space. He works every day but Saturday, rising at 6 a.m. to put on the traditional phylacteries for his prayers. "I start my sculpture with a prayer," he says. "My belief is like a child's, but I don't keep kosher or attend synagogue...
Piet Mondrian's life was dedicated to style. He was the leader, in fact, of the Dutch-centered De Stijl movement that began during World War I. For Mondrian, the ascetic ideal of De Stijl was renunciation of the physical representation of things. His art was right-angular, asymmetrical, and colored only in the primaries of red, blue and yellow. All lines were straight-for the sake of the spirit. Wrote he: "Natural roundness, in a word, corporeality, gives a purely materialist version of objects." Followers of De Stijl designed furniture, built architecture and patterned typography, industrial and household...
...later had good cause to recall this first meeting with the angular man in black, who died last week of a heart attack at 77. Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to a family of Swiss watchmakers, Le Corbusier adopted one of his mother's family names as an artistic signature and set out to become an architect and painter. He embraced the cult of purism, an art style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with...
Kazantzakis himself would probably have refused to permit its publication. The manuscript was not ready; it is a first draft, rudely punctuated by death. It is all edges, untidy, angular, raw, the unpolished work of a perfectionist who invested 13 years on his Odyssey and put it through seven metamorphoses. It does not pretend to be an autobiography, mixes fact so thoroughly with myth that the only recognizable landmarks are the mountaintops of his life...
Stravinsky composed his ballet Les Noces for a chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic choreography for Stravinsky's feverish music...