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Alberto Giacometti, their creator, a gentle golliwigged man now living in Switzerland, had spent a lifetime to achieve them. Born in 1901, Giacometti has passed from impressionism to cubism to surrealism and was dissatisfied with them all. The son of Switzerland's first great impressionist, he began drawing at five. He laughed at his father's landscapes ("Why do you paint this tree? You don't have to. Don't you see that it is already there?"). His father let the boy paint pretty much as he pleased, gently correcting him whenever he could...
This plot plus R & H treatment would have made a musical, but perhaps that wouldn't have satisfied that hungry artistic ambition. The rest of "Allegro" is something altogether original and brilliant: an Impressionist's satire of twentieth century American life. Achieved by a combination of fantastic lighting, expressive ballet, clever writing, and impressionistic music, this satire breaks through in three scenes which should not be forgotten regardless of the rest of the play...
...comically ugly reality. The second parodies a cocktail party: 30 overdressed men and women wiggle about inside an invisible (and nonexistent) wall in the center of the stage, waving long-stemmed glasses, nodding their heads furiously, and shouting in fearful chorus, "Yatata, yatata, boloney, mismosh, rubbish, yatata." The third impressionist scene is "Allegro" itself: the title song, a freudian ballet, and the gyrations of the projected backdrop displaying the tempo of modern life--allegro...
...show were 134 oils, watercolors, sculptures and prints by artists of the "Old Northwest Territory" (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin). Among the prizewinners: a windy, sunny street by veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
Most of the twelve had found their own styles during the war years, when neutral Ireland was left to stew in its own juices. They shared a liking for landscape, and misty Irish light-like Patrick Hennessy's silvery, ruined Cathedrals (see cut). Their leader was veteran Impressionist Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet William...