Word: diptych
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...silk-screened representation of a photograph taken of a Soviet drawing. The drawing itself hints of propaganda art. Meanwhile, it represents the work done with bricks, Lemieux's own. The figure's bold gaze redirects the eye, in case it has strayed, back down into the center of the diptych. Striking a balance between left and right is the work done by colors; both the figure and the brick units at left wear the same hues of olive, ochre, green...
...beautifully rich minimalism is found in Maria Lewis's "The Dyad," 1990-92, a golden diptych. Within each square canvas a burnished circle gives a sense of geometric completion to the doubling. Though the two materials Lewis uses are of a nearly identical color, the dryly stippled acrylic of the painted whole and shiny strip of the inset circles have entirely different, and revelatory, qualities...
Poltergeist. The hell-mouth side of Spielberg's suburban diptych: vengeful spirits drive a middle-class family beyond bananas. The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature. Under Tobe Hooper's direction Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson shine as the dogged mom and the heroic-in-spite-of-himself...
...work has always been pervaded by a cold, lurid sense of breakdown-pleasure and nausea, fragmentation, calamity. Underneath it, the artist's political stance has firmed and grown more explicit. No matter how one may shove around the toy images of rockets, dollar signs and hardhats in Pentagon Diptych (1970), they still propose a visual indictment of bigotry and militarism...
...show how he feels "about being black in a racist society," and to preserve "a picture of our struggle for freedom." Much of his work portrays aspects of violence, including riots at home and the Vietnam war abroad. One enormous diptych called "Vietnam/Genocide/America" points up the Negro's ironically similar position in both. In the background of "The Manipulators" (placed in the window facing the street) we see President Johnson and Premier Ky with their arms around each other; and Johnson has to himself one painting titled simply "Killer." Among other paintings of protest are "Grove Hall Nightmare," "Roxbury Rebellion...