Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same fictional South Carolina town that framed his 1954 bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...
...rest of the Requiem never regains the magnificence of this opening movement, there are other high points, including the tender "Sing with the Spirit," the moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses the double chorus...
...desperately need," Wright said, "is some communication of the spirit, some quality of the soul." It was toward that aim that Wright's whole genius was directed. Almost uniquely among architects, he was able to develop his own particular vision in terms of one highly individualistic but consistent idiom of forms. His prodigious explorations of space and form marked and celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright and his own time on earth. But for the nation, they also comprise a heritage testifying to man's concern with his own nobility and his abiding need for beauty...
...wonder that Heckel's two almost-poetic canvasses express less than they should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...Minneapolis' Walker Art Center last week was a brilliant and very odd exhibition of pictures by Attilio Salemme, who died four years ago at 43. Before he died, Salemme had shaped to near perfection a wholly personal idiom. His retrospective show, which originated at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and will move to Manhattan's Whitney Museum later this month, proved Salemme to have been sad and chill, yet magical, and a colorist of weird subtlety...