Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, around 1958, Freud took to using stiffer brushes -- hog hair, not sable -- that forced broader and more pictorially solid shapes into the paint with which he depicted flesh, helping him compose the body's structure in terms of twisting and displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved...
...Utopian ends of making representation obsolete -- we all know it didn't -- but because the culture forgot that there was anything to do with bodies and faces except photograph them. It's as though America, maddened and warped by its own erotomania, its obsession with and fear of the flesh, and further blocked by its newly acquired worries about sexual politics, can no longer imagine how to paint a naked human being. And even if it wanted to, the skills needed to do so have been edited out of all but a few art schools and are, in the main...
...Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...
Director Justin Levitt seems to have just let the other characters fend for themselves. Whereas some do flesh out their roles (most notably Jessica Yager's wonderfully coy Doctor and Richard Gardner's hilarious bumbling Justice), others simply read their lines and exit. The set, also by Levitt, never quite takes on the majesty of the British courts but rather looks like a small claims court. Costumes are period enough, though the attorney's wigs sometimes make them look like Marilyn Monroe impersonators. These factors detract from the play's tenuous attempts to be intense and powerful drama...
That kind of faux pas was unacknowledged in the days of Ozzie and Harriet and flesh-colored Band-Aids, when one advertising message fit all customers. But like the homogenized, '50s-style households for which they were created, the tools of mass marketing are headed for the Trashmaster of history. Waves of immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa, added to an already growing minority population, are radically reshaping the face and buying habits of the "typical" American consumer...