Word: gazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beside the effervescent Morris, Baryshnikov is rather severe, intently examining the image in the mirror when he is dancing, contemplating Morris with a fixed eye when he isn't. His gaze looks critical, but that's not the case. "I try to figure out the way he works and anticipate him," Baryshnikov says cheerfully. "But I never...
Pictures hang high on the walls of a Palestinian's house, the tops of the frames nearly touching the ceiling. Is it that such elevation of the gaze suggests respect for the figures pictured there -- for the father staring down in formal Arab robes, for the first son, working in one of the gulf states and sending home the money that the family survives on? Such images look down upon Qassem in his sitting room. His own gaze is lowered. He is talking about his prison time and about being interrogated by Israeli agents...
...painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth, miniatures -- was inconceivable, like "going native." The imperious gaze went only one way; its view of Morocco was colonialism in paint...
...artist's mature work, and it is evident that in Morocco Matisse's basic idea of the artist-model relationship crystallized. He began to envision the studio as a kind of harem, where the static and endlessly compliant figure submitted again and again to the pasha- like gaze of her observer...
...next day Mandela captivated more than 3,000 people gathered at Riverside Church by joining in an exuberant rendition of the toyi-toyi, a South African dance of celebration. That night 100,000 people jammed Harlem's Africa Square, content to gaze at the visiting hero whose voice could barely be heard over a feeble public-address system. Later, 50,000 cheered Mandela at a rally in Yankee Stadium, where he delighted his audience by donning a baseball cap and declaring, "You now know who I am. I am a Yankee...