Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sarris's numero uno, and a lot of other people's 100. About the famous dancer/mistress who had affairs with people like Ludwig of Bavaria and that composer who travelled around in a wagon--Liazt. I think, or maybe Griag. Max Ophuls's last film, made in 1955 in color with Martina Carol. Anton Walbrook and Peter Ustinov. Part of Harvard-Epworth's Ophule festival. The Shadow Catcher, at the Welles, sounds real interesting. About Edward S. Curtis and the Native Americans he photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland and Patrick Watson...
This particular exhibition is also exciting because it includes work that departs from the artists more familiar styles. For instance, Gorky is noted for composing basic shapes in drawings and then improvising on them in his paintings--in one the lines might dissolve into a wash of color; in another they would be accented by being presented against a different--colored background. This technique is apparent in Calendars, a charcoal drawing in the exhibition where ambiguous forms interweave and recede into the background. Although Gorky's manipulation of abstract shapes is imaginative, his portraits display a more impressive versatility. Portrait...
...magnificent obsession of Sachio Yamashita is to turn the gray streets and buildings of Chicago into a splendiferous explosion of color. "The whole city is my canvas," declares the slight, goateed artist, who left Japan in 1968 to join the faculty of Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. So far, with the help of small contributions from the city, the U.S. Government and the Stone Foundation, Yamashita has painted the side of an old apartment building with a picture of waves surrounding Mount Fuji, hung a thick, 165-ft.-long, rainbow-hued rope from the roof of another structure...
...This monster city is dark, windy, cold," murmurs Yamashita breathlessly. "Art, color are the vitamins of the soul. I am 42 already. So much to do. Imagine! Striped buildings. Red streets. Sunrise painted on the Sears Tower, sunset on Hancock. A continuous wave of sea paintings along front of all buildings on Michigan Avenue. Rainbows on underside of el tracks. Then we invite all people of city to disappear the next weekend and I do the sidewalks...
...expensive to be carried out. His fixation on Michelangelo was such that when painting Sin, Pursued by Death (1794-96), one of the pictures he made to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost, Fuseli appropriated Michelangelo's Adam for the pose of Sin's voluptuous torso (see color page). That was about as unsuitable a use of the Sistine as one could imagine...