Word: lambent
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FROM LOOKING at the pictures, you could see it in his eyes. Flashbulbs might explode in front of his chiseled face, but the light they cast wasn't nearly as bright as the curious beams that burned beneath his brows. He possessed a lambent, almost impatient genius, one that illuminated and absorbed the dark secrets of quantum mechanics and atomic fission. While other scientists stumbled in the darkness, he moved with confidence and ease. He projected his glance into the dark corners of the universe, saw the force that drove the furnace of the stars, and then he brought that...
...Guggenheim's guest curator, who has a marked taste for indirect and elliptical art, has also included an interesting painter from New Orleans, Jim Richard, 37. Richard's deadpan views of Southern suburbia do not justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where a number of chairs...
...annealing grace of the evening is the score, particularly Lerner's witty lyrics. If Ever I Would Leave You, I Loved You Once in Silence and Camelot jettison the ballast of plot to soar into the lambent spheres of melody...
...1880s art, and many artists recoiled from impressionism, or were indifferent to it, instead of trying like Gauguin or Van Gogh to push beyond it. They are represented too, to the confusion of the term: if post-impressionism means not only Van Gogh's Arlesian canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist like Jules Bastien-Lepage, with his soulful peasant girls in burlap, what can it mean? To what imaginable modernist context do the many style rétro canvases in this show belong?Giovanni Boldini's portrait...
...years the ball of flaming gas that is the U.S. communications industry indicates that a new One is at hand. By assuming office she becomes the nation's muse, our new moon. In earlier manifestations, the Top Model was Lisa Fonssagrives, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton. Now, lambent in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ineffable on a talk show, utterly right at the right disco, a splendid beacon in the mind of every wistful teen-age buyer of eye enlarger and cheekbone sharpener, a poster pinned across Farrah's, a secret smile on the face...