Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Metropolitan, the urbane, formal mastery of Manet...
...artist of Manet's order has many profiles, not all of them visible at the same moment. Fifteen years ago, it was more or less obligatory for American critics to focus on the "radical" formal aspects of Manet's work and, in particular, on his use of flat (or at least shallow) pictorial space. Lone figures like The Fifer and Matador Saluting were posed against a background too flat to be a room, too brown to be outdoors; it was no more than a neutral backdrop, an exaggerated version of the depthless space behind Velásquez...
...formal advisory opinion, the commission-charged with overseeing possible abuses of state conflict of interest and financial disclosure statutes-ruled Monday the Sullivan could vote on the issue. Sullivan said yesterday that the statement explained that "the Secretary of State did not have enough interest in the local matter...
...danger of formal education eclipsing real life was personified for me during my first year back by a trio of graduate students whom I shall refer to as the Three Blind Mice...
...Three Blind Mice confirmed my suspicion that the ideologies and theories learned in college are of imperceptible value in dealing with people; and that formal education fails to prepare students to adjusty to day-to-day life. Rather, it becomes a programmatic attempt to help young people understand human actions after the fact. The classroom situation imposes certain restrictions (limited range of readings, limited time, one teacher's point of view) on the learning experience that are necessary to prevent chaos. In the end it is simply too safe and standardized an environment to teach a person about living...