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Though his constructions have had the brittle, balanced look of a Buck Rogers chessboard, recently Ortman has been going backward. He builds painting around a detailed formal analysis of past masters. He has broken down Gauguin's triptych Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Matisse's Piano Lesson, Botticelli's Allegory of Spring. Says he: "I try to find the actual construction of the painting with geometrical symbols. My subject matter is paint. Someone told me that art comes from art; I took it literally...
...chessboard of 195 separate panels, each with its own colors and design. More than 2,000 sq. ft. of glass move toward a brilliant central mass of golden light. Set deep in its stone framework, the window has a different appearance from every angle. From directly below, all that is visible is a hazy radiance in the air; from across the nave, the light seems to burst in as though propelled from the outside...
...PRENSA of Lima: On the chessboard of international rivalries, Khrushchev is now moving a pawn named Fidel Castro...
...profession, Botvinnik is an electrical engineer, and one of the Soviet Union's best (he helped design the turbines for a giant hydroelectric plant on the Volga). He brings an engineering mind to the chessboard: steeped in the classical traditions and theories of chess, he sizes up his opponent, selects his form of attack and, pondering each move to the limit of allowed time, develops it with ruthless precision...
...many urbane comedies of ideas, Behrman here wives farce with feeling. If his characters in earlier plays (Biography, Rain from Heaven) seemed not so much human beings as assorted points of view, in The Cold Wind they are often not so much human beings as pieces on a racial chessboard. And in the many places where Behrman commemorates traditional Jewish characters enacting standard roles his play is both warm and entertaining...