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...Playboy Editor Hugh Hefner. It is the work of Marisol, whose highly original and wryly appealing style joins wood sculpture, drawing and painting (not to mention carpentry) in a unique combination. The components of her portraits may be odd -a box, a block, a barrel-but they perceptively convey likeness as well as character. "Her art is that of a toy-maker," wrote TIME'S art critic in 1963, "designed to appeal to that part of the mind in which fantasy and reality seem identical. The only difference is that a toy can be outgrown; it seems doubtful that...
Ever since photography was developed in the 19th century, painters have been fascinated not only by the camera's objectivity but also by its ability to convey emotion. In the beginning, such drama lay primarily in the camera's power to capture and freeze a random instant in time. But with the arrival of motion pictures, the telephoto lens, journalistic photography and television, the camera has developed a new vocabulary of images. Spain's Juan Genovès, 37, calls it "graphic language, the language of the photographer." In his show at London's Marlborough Fine...
...role of the director, Guthrie went on, is to coordinate the contributions of all the people involved in the play. There can never be a 'right' interpretation of any work, just as a good playwright can never explain exactly what he means to convey...
...examining photo enlargements, and a long walk through a park--and Antonioni must use editing as a time-compressor, simulating the length of the event through montage, though actually presenting it in a much shorter period of time. This forces him to be economic, to use editing to convey the scene content. He succeeds admirably; the blow-up sequence and the park scenes are tour de forces of film-making, achieving an exciting interaction of style and content...
...presentation of still life. The piece by Willem Kalf stands out among the nine still lifes in the exhibition. His rich colors and intricate brushwork, with a complete attention to detail and a skillful rendering of textures and density make this piece exceptionally exciting. But the nine paintings convey none of the Dutch passion for collections of little objects or the broad range of subjects and styles in Dutch still life painting. As a group, these few pictures present an inadequate view of this important kind of painting...