Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the wider questions posed by Ophuls. Its protagonist. Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), is shooting a film on his childhood experiences as a Jew during the occupation. The present in which the film is being shot is in black and white; the past it depicts, in lush, slow paced color sequences. All the actors in Michel's film are exquisitely beautiful, particularly his wife (Josse Nat) as his mother and his son (David Drach) as the young Michel. Its presentation is limited in perspective, focusing exclusively on what happens to one family, as seen through the eyes...
...that creates a form out of a sound and a sound out of a form in which the five instruments blend, not by coming together, but by moving in opposing directions." The theory sounds impressive but after about five minutes (and the piece lasts 25) the lack of rhythmic color or dynamic change sterilizes the composition's impact and renders it lifeless. Later in the concernt however, Coleman reaches great artictic heights, especially in 'Silence,' where he interposes silent passages between fierce blowing. The silences create an atmosphere of tension in which every note played takes on a heightened significance...
ALWYN NIKOLAIS' DANCE THEATER. Alwyn Nikolais' choreography stresses sculpture, light and color with effects that can be droll or sinister. Costumes, light projections and electronic music are all his own creations. The ten-member troupe performs in New York in late June...
What makes the best things in this show work is an intangible quality of excitement. For some artists a drawing exercise remains only an exercise. Excitement comes when something more is added the idea of personal observation or commentary: the special oddities of line or color or intensity that add life to an exercise: the spark of creative that can be traced to nothing but raw talent...
...MORE interesting for a student to tackle something never tried before--and the works that come out of this are a lot more interesting, too. Walter Bender's color lithograph of Central Square. Rich Diamond's two large mobiles. Mykal Castro's abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas, the photography of Mark Lenihan or Sage Sohier or Paula Bonnell--all these works have a style that relies on neither words nor props...