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...this Bicentennial season, the museums and galleries of Washington offer a feast of exhibition−not mere displays in glass cases or pictures on walls but presentations that stir the imagination, transport us in time, evoke faded memories, envelop us in motion, sounds, even smells...
...ruined by the moisture and acids left by one fingerprint; breathe on it and it will begin to rust in 30 minutes. The blades conjure up tension between one's senses of sight and touch-threat and seduction, attraction and recoil. In the end, sight wins. The blades envelop themselves in august distances, and are wholly visual sculpture...
...head remains the object of thoughtful, disinterested scrutiny, like Cezanne's apple, but much more mysterious. There are the signs of age and stress: an eyelid droops, the gaze is not quite focused. There is the vast dignity: no real head, seen in isolation, could possibly envelop itself in such distances as Velásquez's painted fiction...
Wouldn't it be great if the pieman could cometh to Congress! Each opening session would begin with an intense ten-minute pie fight. It would be a grand way to get rid of hostilities and envelop that august body in a meringuey camaraderie. I think it would raise public esteem for our legislators as well-they would get most of the foolishness, pomposity, orneriness, pettiness and childishness out of their systems in one brisk fling...
...pressure lend a delicacy to the face, which seems to emerge quietly from the paper. A less representational series of pen and ink drawings are devoted to the female form in relation to its surroundings. In Figure in Interior the human body is absorbed by bold black strokes that envelop it. The woman in Untitled, 1967, is swept up in the rhythm of the lines as one might be carried off by a hurricane...