Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short-lived "movements" that agitated the surface of art in the 1960s, Op art had the briefest life. What became of all those eye-teasing patterns, those blips and dazzles and other paraphernalia of quick-shot visual illusion? Gone, mostly: either degenerating into unctuously chic decor-as with European artists like Yaacov Agam or, in his late work, Victor Vasarely-or vanishing into that limbo of taste where obsolete experiments go. Today's supergraphics wrap tomorrow's garbage...
...people will no doubt walk out of The Passenger. So much of it is unpleasant, and more will simply be tedious for those who aren't geared to the director. Only Antonioni's vision of a decadent, uninvolved and overinformed western civilization and its own use of the camera eye corresponds easily to a conventional sense of social criticism. David Locke, the journalist, his wife and his news colleagues all lead prechanneled lives, never confronting nature or themselves. The newsmen chase facts which long since have stopped meaning anything real to them. Like the photographer in Blow-Up, they...
...unseen figure are exotic and often witty interlopers. One of his best photographs is a picture of the thick base of a tree, its bark the texture of an elephant's hide, surrounded by the long, slender fronds and serrated edges of various plants. Here Russell's sensitive eye has captured a startling range of tones and textures...
Whatever the reasons, the establishment of a state bank in New York could signal the start of a far-reaching trend. Already, lawmakers in California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington are watching New York's progress with an eye toward setting up state banks of their...
...John do his bullish best to get his man, while tiptoeing through the tea-cozy minefield of British decorum, seem endless. Any American who has tried to take lunch at a club in St. James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social fiddle by busting a few heads in true American democratic style...