Word: chameleon
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Talisman. Picassos amount to nearly half the bequest; they are particularly welcome, for the gift expands the chameleon career of this master, who has painted through many styles. Thannhauser's Picassos stretch from a 1960 oil of symbolic doves back to a small work of 1898, when the artist still signed his name P. Ruiz Picasso. Next is Picasso's first oil done in Paris, Le Moulin de la Galette, a muted 1900 Lautrecian cabaretscape, gaslit with top hats as sleek and glassy as carafes of absinthe. Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting...
...done 30 productions (predominantly classical) since its start, the APA is now a well-integrated, well-trained troupe, one-third of whom have been in the company all five years. They are beginning to reflect Rabb's maxim that a rep company should be made up not of chameleon-like actors but of a group of stars who leave their individual mark on each role...
...Line & Stencil. For much of his chameleon career, Picasso regarded graphics as another kind of drawing, but the pure lines contrasting with hard planes of his late linoleum cuts bring out his simplification of nature in a sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would...
...light," said Bonnard, and he was an ingenious supplicant. In the checkerboard tiles that pattern his work, the color changes to harmonize with nearby colors. Nude flesh becomes a chameleon mirror for interior hues; a bathtub becomes an irregular cocoon for the human form. Bonnard's pictures are made of optical bewilderment and caprices of color...
JUDY: That's quite all right. And surely you mean lenses, Jake. What a superb melange de style Vierney achieves utilizing quasi-fish-eye, extreme wide angle, kaleidoscopic, wide angle standard focal length, and long lens shots. Shots that delicately commingle the chameleon pastel shades and confirm Resnais's mastery of montage and complete command of mise en scene. Surely, one of the great auteurs...