Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that as a colorist he prefers primary hues to the shades in between. The delicate pastels of French impressionists like Debussy and Ravel simply seem to be beyond him. Yet one can never rule out any possibility with Solti-even his becoming a master of the tender brush stroke. The Beethoven represented by his new recording with the Chicago of the Ninth Symphony (London) is significantly deeper and technically nearer perfection than the Beethoven he recorded more than ten years ago with the Vienna Philharmonic. This week London issues his Parsifal. Serene, mystical, glowingly colored...
...volte-face; since that year, he has concentrated entirely on life drawing, thus reversing the usual modernist's development. "I was born into modern art," he says, "and it was my start. I think that period is closed, and in any case I have left it. My brush drawings are postabstract, and could not have come into being without abstraction...
...death of Giacometti. Arikha's drawings of landscapes, old shoes and coats, his own face or that of a friend like Samuel Beckett, may seem frustrating at first. They look messy and disclose themselves slowly. None of the hard, wiry line of pen or silverpoint here; the brush (the kind used in Japan for sumi-e or ink painting) flits and stumbles across the roughly textured page, leaving behind tiny marks that seem knitted or crocheted together...
...thinks, as an approximate parallel, of the flat, densely woven brush-work in late Monet. Because Arikha uses undiluted black ink on untinted white paper, the shifts of tone depend entirely on the pressure of the brush. But his sense of gradation, from deep velvety blacks through grays to un touched white, rarely falters...
...their occasional tolerance of radical new ideas, however, few scientists are ready to discard the old rationality. Even the iconoclastic Mendelsohn admits that "there is too much of use in the scientific way of knowledge to simply brush it aside...