Word: colors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similarly, the Loeb's crew has done a spectacular job with all the technical aspects of the production. From the opening moments, the play is a riot of color, with elaborate costumes, scenery and lighting giving the show a wonderfully festive air. Like the actors, the technical staff has done its best to keep Figaro from dragging. And its best is very, very good...
Black and White in Color. The big surprise of last spring's Academy Awards ceremony came when this little known film upset favorite "Cousin, Cousine" to capture the Best Foreign Film Oscar. And deservedly so: "Black and White in Color" is an extraordinarily intelligent and sophisticated allegory, a thematically subtle, visually striking film in many ways reminiscent of Phillippe De Broca's anti-war fable "The King of Hearts." But while DeBroca's film represented an attack on the absurdity of war and the modern world in general, "Black and White in Color" functions not only as a broad anti...
...without the aid of the show's catalogue or a Faculty member from the Fine Arts department. Perhaps theory can only be explained in books and classrooms, but if this is true, it is hard to see how art like Davis's, which is built on careful study of color and space and interrelationships between the two, can ever win a popular following. People who do not have the time and expertise to wade through lenthy and obscure explanations of theory will have to form their opinions of modern art purely from observation of bizarre-looking canvasses that are often...
...hints are as frustratingly vague as they are tantalizingly interesting. In a study for his work "Reconditioned Eggbeaters," Davis scrawls, "Only a Marc is a Noun. Only an Operative Scar is a Noun. Art exists as a Syntax of Scars." Pages from one of his studies of color begin to explore the relationships between different colors and the impact of different series of colors. The chronology explains that Davis had a "desire to achieve intellectual clarification of the problems he found as a practicing artist." But if he achieved that clarification, the Fogg show does not enlighten the average viewer...
...behind it, Davis's work holds up better in the eyes of the uninitiated than some other abstract art of the past 50 years because Davis usually gives the viewer a little piece of reality to hang on to--a word or a number slipped in among patches of color, or a form that distinctly resembles a human being. These touches are somehow reassuring to those who prefer traditional portrait and landscape art; Davis uses the reassurance to persuade viewers to move further into his art and enjoy the clever play of lines and shapes without worrying about what...