Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Stouffer's forte lies in color especially, which she handles in a varied yet subtle and consistent manner. Her brisk, incisive drawing seems equally personal, although there are instances in which the idiom becomes conventionalized, overwhelming rather than serving the fundamental idea. In any event, her paintings and woodcuts are all fresh, lyric and full of spirit...
Here, formidably arrayed, is an art characterized, as Director Perry Rathbone has said, by its "strongly individualistic flavor." Yet, for most of these masters, their deepest bond lies in a conviction that, as Rouault put it, "anyone can revolt," and in a search for unequivocal vision whatever the individualistic idiom or temperament might be--the very quest for universality which led Picasso to stoutly affirm, "There is no abstract...
With a fine command of Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush...
This week the Tufts Arena offers their best production so far this season, a splendid rendition of "Sing Out, Sweet Land." Walter Kerr's allegorical eroica, extolling man's universal quest for freedom, couched in specific American terms, is a kind of musical biography of the American idiom. A cavalcade of American folk songs from the colonial days to Gershwin interspersed with a narrative biography of American history chronicle the development of the American idiom...
...originality and spontaneity. He analyses the psychology of love with occasionally brilliant and penetrating flashes of Oscar Wildean wit, epigrams and repartees, and unmasks man's soul with inquisitive glee, showing sympathy and understanding of human character. His rainbow play sheds a radient vision and has an unmistakably French idiom of graciousness and lightness...