Word: fecundating
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...fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby (1967). The past year alone has seen radical film versions by Peter Brook, Carlos Saura and Jean-Luc Godard...
Strange how the pressures of the world seem to have cropped out in the center of the country. The fecund fields of Adair County, Iowa, yield more corn than anyone can sensibly conceive (5,308,000 bu. made up of at least 400 billion individual kernels, any one of which makes a good chew for a boy doing nothing but hiking in the sun and tasting the earth's power). That is corn coveted by the adversary, the Soviet Union. Corn that would feed the hungry of Bangladesh if they could only get it. Corn that is so abundant...
Smith was an extremely fecund artist. One array of steel parts clanked down and pushed around on the cement floor of his studio could set off a train of associations that led with Picassoan abruptness to a whole group of pieces. For this reason, the National Gallery's show, curated by Art Historian E.A. Carmean, concentrates on the role of series in Smith's work, on how sculptural sets arose out of particular opportunities. The show also has much to say about how material determines imagery in Smith's work. But above all, it is an aesthetic...
...moving. Finally, it has one more extra-literary quality. Possibly it is just sentimental to say so, but there is a satisfaction, indeed a reassurance in seeing this achievement when the author is himself pushing 70. Athletes usually hang up their cleats by 35, theoretical scientists rarely stay fecund into their 40s and most writers turn out their best stuff before 50 Cheever's publication of Oh What a Paradise It Seems, and the broadening of vision it demonstrates, is an act with all the beauty of a well-broken rule...
...draftsman, Smith was fecund, prolific to the point of garrulity, and very uneven. In front of many drawings in this show one is made to feel that, had they not been created by one of the leading modernist sculptors, they would not command much attention on their plain aesthetic merits. Most of the work from the late '30s and early '40s is pastiche of one sort or another: a heavy line, now dogmatic, now uncertain, grinding across the paper, paying its digestive homages to Picasso, Gonzalez, constructivism generally and, rather surprisingly, to the bonelike figures of Moore...