Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHAME. Ingmar Bergman tells a painful parable of the horrors of war and the moral responsibility of the artist. This is his 29th film and one of his best, with resonant performances by Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand...
...however, Noland's reputation seems to have widened amazingly. His latest work, marked by a softer, subtler spectrum of colors, and currently on view at Manhattan's Lawrence Rubin Gallery, is so much in demand that the gallery is charging up to $28,500 per painting. The artist himself and his svelte wife Stephanie can afford to divide their time between a farm in Vermont and Manhattan, where he recently bought and is renovating a flophouse on the Bowery. Noland's style has been studied and imitated by fellow artists from Rome to British Columbia. Advertisements...
Freeing Color. To hear the artist tell it, the most interesting thing about his painting is the way in which it "liberates color." The son of a pathologist, he was educated at Black Mountain College, where he studied under another symphonist of structured color, Josef Albers. He became disenchanted with the way in which second-generation Abstract Expressionists were covering their canvases with empty, bombastic gestures. The trouble, he decided, was that they were using their brushes to draw, and "drawing contains assumptions of what you are painting about. It has to do with identifying things, with graphic representation...
...deliberately but intuitively. In such works as Vista or Via Gleam, which to the superficial casual viewer may look like mattress ticking, his pride is made manifest through their towering dimensions. These 5-ft. by 12-ft. canvases surround and subdue the viewer with their commanding presence. The artist's grace and bravado show up in the audacious ease with which he lays together subtly different, visually demanding colors. Vista elegantly challenges the viewer to contemplate the precise differences between more than a dozen shades of pink...
...Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with the drop of a decibel. He is also a deserter from the Russian army...