Word: framed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well-known in the art business, Kulicke has put rims 'around hundreds of Pollocks, Klines, Newmans, Frankenthalers and Motherwells. For these modernists, he developed the "Kulicke frame" - a simple, tasteful band of polished aluminum. For his frames he won a design award last month from the American Institute of Interior Designers...
...that of the painting he works with. As an artist, though, he must combat the instinct to be tasteful. "Taste," he argues, "is created by artists who don't have taste. It is through their convictions that they create the taste of other people." Thus, he refuses to frame his own pictures. "If my pictures are going to live," he says, "maybe the next generation will find a sympathetic way to frame them...
Thursdays were always special. After school, youngsters hitched heavy canvas bags over their shoulders and set out through sycamore-shaded streets. They crisscrossed the broad lawns in front of white frame houses, tossing parcels from their bags up under porch swings and wicker chairs on the wide, front verandas. Then screen doors would squeak and bang, and children would squabble over who would carry them inside. A new issue of the Saturday Evening Post had arrived...
Preminger has always used photographic space as a prison to trap his characters. In Skidoo the brilliant opening confirms beyond a doubt that Preminger's art is visionary (note the shot, when Gleason and Arnold Stang go upstairs, consisting entirely of croped details of frame elements, showing nothing as an independent whole). More simply, Preminger films the wide-angle claustrophobia of a Hippie bus to contradict their professed freedom, just as the immaculately confident space of the California courthouse is violated by the encroaching teen-agers. If we know how to read the content of Preminger's images, Skidoo...
...Harvey had to be ingenious. With a ministage and a cast of only six, they set out to spoof the movie musicals of the 1930s, with all their intricate dance routines and big, glittering production numbers ("lavish" was the Depression word for them). One clever device is a movable frame inside the proscenium that makes the stage even smaller than it is, so that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another...