Word: comicality
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...interplay of color and form and how together they produce meaning. Like Howard Hodgkin, or for that matter Matisse, she offered us a bright, beckoning palette as a point of entry into all kinds of sophisticated reckonings with form. And though her work is full of references to comic books and cartoons, she didn't put them there as lazy quotations, a means by which to lend herself pop culture street cred. She connected her memories of Disney and Dick Tracy to the tropes of Surrealism, conflating them into a parallel reality that's both funny-pages funny and uncanny...
...number of artists - Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston, Jennifer Bartlett were some others - who were looking for new ways to make painting a dynamic form again. In that search, Murray would turn out to be a brilliant synthesizer, blending influences from Stuart Davis, from Picasso and Miro, and from the comic strips she loved as a kid. She didn't care if her inspirations were high or low, so long as they got her where she wanted...
...Just look at the big, protuberant bulbs of canvas that she used so often. They hark back simultaneously to the biomorphic swellings of Arshile Gorky and Miro and to comic strip thought balloons - Surrealist fantasy inflated by the breath of Donald Duck. And by that means she offered a reminder that there's a slip-sliding dreamworld shared by Popeye and Dali - and by us, in our innermost moments - where all shapes are easily shifted...
...Paris will not be your dish of Pernod. But if a dose of skepticism (see Jack trying to come to grips with rabbit stew) and multilingual frenzy (dealing with a vegan saboteur in a fast food restaurant) does not seem entirely amiss to you, this anti romantic and anti-comic - it's not as funny as Delpy seems to think it is - movie may appeal to the dark side of your immune system...
...upon themselves to challenge the status quo. How productive is it, they ask, to stubbornly ensure that every minority—visible or otherwise—has an insular campus organization all its own, safely cordoned off from the rest of the student body? A brief campus-wide comic opera ensues, as the officers of the maligned cultural groups write angry letters expressing their collective disappointment at their peers’ lack of sensitivity. The matter is hotly debated on email lists for a few days, until the dozen or so people with the time and energy to participate lapse...