Word: apollonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reworking leaves an impression of curiosity, not indecision. The paintings are broadly brushed and then "tuned" by passages of fine, but not fidgety, detail. The color, glazed or discreetly scumbled, is luminous--now diffuse like sea fog, now hard and bright as direct sun. The Ocean Parks radiate an Apollonian calm, an uncoercive authority. They are the creations of a man with a fully integrated temperament, candid but not showy. There is nothing else quite like them in modern painting, in America or the world...
...Adams House prepared for its annual stab at Dionysiac frenzy, more Apollonian-minded students--or, perhaps, just those whose parents were in town for freshman parents' weekend--assembled at Sanders Theatre for an evening with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO). The attendance at the two events was probably about equal--Sanders was packed to capacity with at least 800 attendees, a number that even Martin Feldstein would envy--but the average age at HRO was probably a good 30 years older, as beaming parents and plain old Cantabridgians turned out for an evening of aesthetic elevation...
...least, that's what they thought they were in for. In fact, thanks to a distinctly odd choice of works for this first concert of the season, HRO presented more of a caricature of the Apollonian: lots of tuxedos, not much excitement. The program lacked a major, wellbeloved anchor work; the closest thing to a classical Top 40 hit was Beethoven's Leonore No. 3 Overture, which is popular but too short to build a concert around. It was followed by the distinctly sub-average Triple Concerto of Beethoven, and the interesting but comparatively obscure Symphony No. 1 of Shostakovich...
...these aren't included either. Isamu Noguchi doesn't figure in a show that is laden to the gunwales with 1960s Minimal sculpture; later its curators find space for Jeff Koons' twerpy silver train and floating basketball, but none for Richard Diebenkorn's figurative paintings or even his superbly Apollonian Ocean Parks...
Three of the star acts illustrate the show's underlying theme: family. Twin sisters Sarah and Karyne Steben -- Sharon Stone in duplicate on the high bar -- perform their mirror-image calisthenics in a space as intimate as the womb. The brothers Marco and Paulo Lorador bend their Apollonian physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where...