Word: counterpointings
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...wall-long relief sculpture for the side of a building. Made of pieces like old railroad ties and used industrial lumber, its strong vertical and horizontal lines recall the rectilinear urban grid of the area. And the material corroborates the Populist sentiment that "wood is good"-a needed counterpoint for an increasingly steel city...
...particle of every line crystalline. He does not admit superfluous notes, dynamic nourishes, believing that "gratuitous excess spoils every substance, every form that it touches." He is most traditional, and most original, in his use of severely-delineated polyphony, rhythm, text, and articulation. Stravinsky has always demanded austere linear counterpoint, a practice which recalls Mahler's dictum that "All music is counterpoint...
...complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self-contained. The wonderful music of speech, and the counterpoint of the scenes themselves, should be woven into breathing movements of lyrie felicity and heroic urgency. The company tends to interrupt speech with gesture, but this is a small problem indeed. I wished, above all, for the quiet felicity which allows the poetry to be released in human similitude...
...looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait (Serape). Before the painted canvas, he hung wire plumb lines, which cast shadows on the bathrobes and thus give them a curious kind of life. This tense and intentional counterpoint between hard and soft materials, object and paint, reality and illusion can be traced through virtually all of his works...
...publication, named either Counterpoint or Prometheus, will come out six times a school year and will have an initial circulation...