Word: didacticism
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Matisse's best-known remark about his art didn't help much either: he wanted "an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter," that would soothe the mind of "every mental worker . . . something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue...
If the play is meant to be merely a dark-humored farce, it should have more funny lines and less of a didactic message about patriarchy and imperialism. Decadence by itself can conceivably be fascinating and amusing if it's made clear that morality has no part in the world...
The show steers a didactic course through the recurrent images of jazz-age dreaming. Maria, the famous she-robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, mother of a whole brood of automatons down to George Lucas' See Threepio, was not alone: her brothers were the machine men of Dadaism...
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD. Does art enoble the lowest wretch? Are convicts and their captors kindred spirits under the skin? Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker says so in this didactic, sporadically touching Broadway drama, staged without subtlety in a transfer from the Hartford Stage Company.
The problem is too much reverence for the subject, not enough respect for the audience. The higher one climbs on the power-and-influence ladder, the more ponderously didactic the drama becomes. The opening scenes, set in a poor black school district in South Carolina's Clarendon County, are affecting...