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...painting and ceramics of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). The show includes examples of Ju porcelain, the rarest and most esteemed type of Chinese ceramic: a lotus bowl and a dish with bodies as thin as fingernails, the absolute simplicity of their form etherialized by their pale turquoise glaze, a color so subtle that it seems to be emitting light rather than reflecting...
Wonderful things would continue to be produced for the Chinese imperial courts right down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
SKIERS KNOW THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE AN ice scraper cutting through the glaze on a windshield, only it gets louder and louder, and it is accompanied by the whoops and wails of the truly possessed. Upon hearing it, the smart skier moves off to the side of the trail. He or she knows that an avalanche of snowboarders is coming...
Having set up these constrictions of size and solidity, Hodgkin then pushes against them as hard as he can, and the tension that results can be magic: small panels with huge brushstrokes, subtle and fleeting effects of glaze and scumble contrasting with the rigidity of their support, and frames (with frames of paint inside, as well) that squeeze speckled, color-saturated vistas into distant postcards. The window effect isn't just a mannerism. It speaks of a certain anxiety, the desire to guard memory in the act of revealing it: "The more evanescent the emotion I want to convey," Hodgkin...
...York City? I think he would have been hauled off to Bellevue. Or in Los Angeles? Well, everyone drives there. No where else would people take the time, listen and empathize with a complete stranger. Yes, the movie also shows the rednecks who tease him, but the optimistic glaze of the film uses their hatred as a source for Forrest's strength and development...