Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Ortman constructs more than he paints. His multilevel assemblages are children's toys of pegs and holes, painstakingly put together in a jigsaw manner. Each form is separately cut out and inserted into the frame as an illustration of the frustrating search for the round peg to fit the square hole...
...building, designed by Architect Ralph Rapson. looks as if Henry Moore had been doodling on it with a jigsaw. Through the holes of the outer facade peeks a structure drawn with a Mondrian ruler in a rectilinear austerity of charcoal grey, white and glass. Suspended over the stairs and lobbies are globes of light, a child's army of upside-down lollipops. The stage itself juts forward like a mammoth home plate with a blunted tip, while a rear portico of four columns supports an upper platform. Around this arena stage sweeps a C-arc of 200°. some...
...light in watercolors comes from the bare whiteness of paper, Cézanne progressively left more and more blank white space. After 1885, his watercolors began influencing his oils: patches of canvas showed through watery thin layers of bright paint. Cézanne's work became like unfinished jigsaw puzzles...
Faulknerian Fragments. The reader is soon plunged into a bewildering narrative jigsaw puzzle that reconstructs Jakob's life. Snippets of dialogue between Jakob's co-workers alternate with long Faulknerian monologues by a state security officer who has been shadowing Jakob. Small, never entirely explained incidents-like the sudden flight of Jakob's mother to the West-switch abruptly to recollections of Jakob by a girl who grew up with his family and has long since escaped to West Berlin. Piecing these fragments together reveals a shadowy plot. But in the process of finding out what happens...
...biggest chunk is an 8-ft. by 10-ft. section of the tail. Yet the skilled crash detectives of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board can identify and check every tiny fragment. Out of the grim jigsaw puzzle, they will slowly and carefully extract the "probable cause" of the accident. Then other 707s, forewarned and perhaps modified, may be saved from making plunging turns into disaster...