Word: jaggedness
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In Landscape with Philosopher, jagged peaks climb to over nine feet, as Lichtenstein vertically stacks over 10 different dot screens. The most captivating moments are the points where the screens overlap, intersect or dissolve into one another. Here Lichtenstein again demonstrates his masterful visual economy, using the exact same dots...
Not always a liability, this frenetic motion sometimes creates a brilliant effect as in Landscape with Boat. Easily the most abstract and compositionally daring painting in the show, Landscape with Boat looks like a jagged collision of two blue dot screens leaving a gigantic gash across the canvas. Only upon...
Though all such otherworldly erupting is dramatic, it amounts to little more than geological pyrotechnics. On Europa, however, tidal heating may have produced something truly remarkable. The formations Galileo spotted last week are definitely icebergs, though less jagged-looking than those found on Earth. Astronomers don't know why Europan...
The poignancy of a candidate's smile set against the festive transience of a confetti drop. A shattered jetliner transformed into a floating, jagged sculpture. As this gallery from 1996 shows, a photojournalist's work at its best is both document and art.
This much in the tangled case of Kay and Jackie is certain: during their 10-year relationship, right up until the night Kay shot and killed Jackie, the couple was locked in an escalating cycle of violence and reconciliation. Though the story Kay tells is as dark and twisted as...