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Someone once said that avant-garde movements inevitable lose their momentum, citing Impressionism and the hippie movement as classic examples of his theory. Yet the art of Malet is fortunate: Created in an age so befuddled by every kind of "-ism" from Fauvism to Cubism to Dadaism, and with new fashions developing in geometric progression, it is graced by a label which, while evoking instant recognition (everyone's aunt gushes over "the lovely Impressionist paintings"), does not really set any limits on an artist's self-expression. Impressions pure and simple. Few painters escape the biggest pitfall along this path...
...omni-accommodative generalized principles" or "the progressive complex of cosmic episodes of scenario universe" throw me into the same haze as pretentious science-fiction. When, after the geodesic rhetoric, we're told of synergetics and the positive value of mistakes, you may feel like adding the Robert Louis Stevenson-ism: "the world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we all should be as happy as kings...
...carrying Evangel(ical)ism outside the Christian community"-if we do that, we're only doing the job we've been given of spreading the Gospel "to every creature." Conversion and a relationship with Jesus carry with them an automatic burden to tell others. Evangelism not carried outside the community ceases to be evangelism...
...want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film's charm is illusion." If you haven...
Code of Shapes. This kind of nonsense only served to confuse Kupka's image more, and so for most people he remains the least known of all the significant figures in early European modern ism. A full-dress retrospective was needed. Now it has come: 190 paintings, drawings and studies, opening this week at New York's Guggenheim Museum...