Word: jokey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quite often his art was as much about In jokes and irreverent manipulation as it was about balance, as Rosenthal points out. For cubism was created by a high-spirited clique of young outsiders, reacting to the pervasive, ephemeral surface of Parisian culture with puns and gossip, the arcane jokey language of their own group. As a former cartoonist, Gris delighted in this "Pop" view of his tunes, and it suffuses some of his best paintings. The Man at the Café, 1914, looks at first like a conventional cubist figure, the clues to its presence being...
There was, after all, a lot of the bad boy in Hitchcock. It was that cheeky, jokey quality in him, as well as his unobtrusive technical mastery, that allowed him the pretense of being simply an entertainer all those years during which he was dripping his obsessions into his audiences' unsuspecting brains. Lacking both sides of the old boy's schizophrenic sensibility, Benton can do no more than offer a dispassionate mimicry of someone else's style. There are a few little scares in his film, but nothing to stir our dreams or haunt our memories...