Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply moved by Bert Lahr's death [Dec. 15]. Having directed the late star in Aristophanes' comedy, The Birds, at the Ypsilanti, Mich., festival, I feel obliged to express my sympathy to all of the Americans for the loss of that comic genius...
...well as his first encounter with that other genius, Aristophanes. It was a thrilling experience to watch, during rehearsals, these two giants of humor and hilarity fight against each other for predominance-striking at each other with totally different weapons of method, language, mentality, even decency-to establish a comic point that was, fundamentally, common to them both...
...Comics & Bubble Gum. The Whitney's curators found few artists portraying local flavor in the tradition of Grant Wood. What they discovered instead was regional groups with a common outlook, like the West Coast's "funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers...
...Hope is the Will Rogers of the age, a kind of updated, urbanized farmer's almanac of political and social currents. Rogers was the sly rustic, a humorist with a lariat; Hope is the self-caricaturing sophisticated comic with a paradiddle patter. Rogers was show business, and so is Hope, and they share the same understanding of what is unique in American humor: a healthy irreverence for pomp and position. And they both succeeded by pitching their personalities across the footlights to touch their listeners with something close to folk wisdom. Some of Hope's lines even sound...
Chandler favors loud colors, even garish ones, and sometimes employs intentionally rough and unsubtle comic-strip techniques. His broad-stroke work often recalls Rouault. He himself especially admires and acknowledges the influence of Picasso, Rivera, Braque, Beckmann, Buffet, and the Negro muralist Charles White...