Word: inwardness
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Going blind, Argentina's greatest writer has turned inward to the mirrors of his mind, and in this slight volume of poems and parables has dreamed himself into a bewildering multiplicity of recollections and roles...
Tanz's measured progress continued until he came to van Gogh's Self-portrait, 1889, oils, 65 x 54 cm., sometimes known as 'Vincent in the Flames'. The description in the catalogue read:' . . .Taut to the breaking point, it testifies to van Gogh's struggle to master his inward turmoil .... An expression of supreme equilibrium on the brink of the abyss...
Segal, 38, tried but could not take on the inward passions of abstract expressionism. "I was too sensual to turn inside," he says. "I was driving myself crazy as an art student. One teacher agreed and even called me schizophrenic." Now Segal takes a short cut to sculptures; he makes splint personalities by making thin-walled plaster molds of his friends, blurring and refining the wet plaster to his purposes. With his unconventional technique, Segal found a new reality emerging while the plaster set. "To hold a pose for 40 minutes," says...
...orange, grey, brown and blue paintings in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery are intimate scenes: Mildred Lamar Hooking a Rug is as innocent as a colonial primitive; his children in a room or walking on the lawn are devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality...
...riotous mobs in an almost carnival mood that-in all innocence-threatened his life. It was a severe test. By meeting it with unfaltering patience and good humor, Paul VI appeared before the world as more than merely an intellectual pastor; he stood forth as a man of intense inward dedication, piety and exemplary courage...