Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right from the start, Dali was a glacial opportunist with weak powers of formal invention. He was also precocious and adroit, and so, as one might expect, his early work is an anthology of secondhand manners. He begins as a late-Picasso cubist, turning out bland art deco still lifes that contain a few premonitions of his later imagery; the lank, droopy fish in Moonlit Still Life, 1927, for example, predicts the flaccidity that was to appear in his soft watches and piano lids. But he did not find a style until he came to Paris and met the surrealists...
...works selected are eccentric and imaginative. They progress far beyond the bland walls done by the government-sponsored WPA artists in the 1930s. Each represents the artist's concern for integrating art into the subway environment. As the organizers of the project point out, few places could provide more problems for artists than crowded subway stations...
...Carter we knew in 1976 worked tirelessly to create this image, and with surprising speed, Bush has shed his upper-class prep school heritage and established the same bland, folksy reputation. Time described him recently as "likeable, decent, a fine...
...here as a film director might use jump cuts. He has the panache to handle the first person singular, although the effect can be cloying when he immodestly quotes himself: "Above all, there was the voice [Sir Ralph Richardson's], which I once described as 'something between bland and grandiose: blandiose, perhaps...
...single joke: no sooner does Chance venture out than he is mistaken for a philosopher, a sex symbol and a potential presidential candidate. The secret of his success is TV. Having been nurtured by the medium, Chance has all the attributes of a perfect TV star; he is bland, nonthreatening and always cheery. It is Kosinski's conceit that even a simpleton, if telegenic, has what it takes to be king in the land of the tube...