Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibitions have offered such extreme pleasures to the eye. Though the pleasures are taxing, because of a scale of detail so tiny that the museum supplies magnifying glasses, Christopher Marlowe's phrase, "Infinite riches in a little room," takes on a special meaning with these miniatures. They are the condensed products of an immense appetite for the world and its fruits, compressed into a few square inches of surface. They are also fresher than most European Renaissance paintings because they have been protected between the covers of books, so that the pigment has not faded through exposure to light...
...combination of utter vividness, precision of detail and fantasticated, rhythm ical design breathes from nearly all the miniatures, but especially from the work of the Safavid court artist Sultan-Muham mad, for whom this show is in effect a retrospective. In one image of a legendary Persian hero, Rustam Sleeping While Rakhsh Fights the Lion, there is a dazzling play between abstraction and observation...
...role, he studies the part, lives with people who resemble his character and compulsively perfects the nuances of the character. In Kramer, his strategy pays off. Hoffman's Ted Kramer is extraordinarily realistic, at once the ambitious young executive and the confused but loving father. His attention to detail and brilliant voice control--fast and agitated, quiet and pained--combine to add touches that few actors...
...background of Paul Signac's portrait of Critic Félix Fénéon?with its long portmanteau title, Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colors, Portrait ofM. Félix Fénéon in 1890?may have begun as a tiny detail of a kimono design in a Japanese print...
...cost exceeding that of fine carpeting. It is a clear, cold day in January, and the early morning light glows on the hills and mountains. Beautiful, but there is a wrongness to the look and feel of things. There is too much brown in the landscape, too much detail. Snow brings blues and purples, edits out corn stubble and fallen leaves, turns a landscape into a line drawing. Its severity is what this fine January light should be explicating...