Word: jigsaw
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Certainly the Professor delivering the lectures speaks with the perspective of one who knows the whole of the story. He knows what is to come later and what bearing each bit of information has on the entire message. The professor is, in effect, creating a jigsaw puzzle with the completed picture before him. The student who has not been granted a preliminary look at the completed jigsaw puzzle becomes a passive observer who fails to appreciate the significance, intellectual as well as aesthetic, of each piece as it clunks into place...
...role of the President must be to unite the nation. But he must unite it by inspiring it, not unite it by just adding it up or by piecing it together like some kind of jigsaw puzzle. Rather than trying to organize the nation he must try to encourage the common purpose of creating an order of justice in America...
...theater, have I seen an audience as patently perplexed as this one," wrote Herbert Kretzmer of the Daily Express. "It would need a psychoanalyst-and preferably Tennessee Williams' own-to offer a rational interpretation of the enigmas that litter the stage like pieces of an elaborate jigsaw...
This dramatic jigsaw is called The Two Character Play, and it has only two players-a brother and sister named Felice and Clare. He is the manager and leading man and she the leading lady of a dramatic troupe playing an engagement in a fortress-like theater in a grimly foreign, extremely cold town. The pair have just been deserted by the rest of the company with a farewell telegram charging that they are insane. Since the "audience" is already filing into the theater, Felice and Clare have no choice but to put on an item in their repertory called...
What makes the final product so fresh and captivating is the skill with which Bearden employs his polyglot artistic heritage. His jigsaw Afro-American faces borrow their cubistic profiles from Picasso; yet, as Bearden says, Picasso in turn was inspired by African masks. Bearden also cadges tricks from Bosch, Brueghel and the neo-Dadaists, pasting a tiny sun in a woman's eye as she greets her returning juvenile-delinquent son (pun intended) in The Return of the Prodigal Son. All this intermingling has the effect of broadening his pictures from the specific into the universal. It takes...