Word: artisticness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to think that Roth is also writing something like the Jewish parallel to Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He himself identifies Portnoy's older sister with a copy of Portrait. In his other work, Roth has introduced well-known book titles only for very specific reasons. Portnoy, like Stephen Daedalus, struggles to escape his family and his religion. And--as much as his country is Israel rather than America--he is forced to abandon that too when he finds himself inexplicably impotent during a visit there. But, unlike Stephen, he finds his solace...
...Sphinx series is far from Munch's finest work. The pictures are too busy, too fussy, too blatantly overloaded with message. Possibly because they meant so much to the artist, they lured him into abandoning his cardinal principles of art. Munch developed his spare "symbolistic" style about 1892. It was based on the elimination of modeling and minor details, on emphasizing rhythmic contours and outlines. Above all, it meant subjugating technique to subject, then crystalizing subject itself into a single unforgettable image...
Breakaway Artist...
...Artist may work with space and color. Since Cezanne, an artist's space has been getting shallower and his color brighter. One of the best pieces in the exhibition, Andrew Tavarelli's red, blue, yellow, orange, and green stain painting, again on a gigantic canvas, is color, floating and blowing across a white expanse...
THERE IS enough evidence to convince the most benighted of critics that Ingmar Bergman is an artist of massive integrity, possessing an acuity that equals that of the very best novelists and poets of our time, and a fearless honesty of both subject matter and technique that separates him from his contemporaries in film. His latest effort, Shame, and the earlier Seventh Seal very possibly could render him, along with Gunter Grass among novelists and John Berryman among poets, one of the eminences of art of this century. His new film concerns itself with difficulties of a young couple living...