Word: lifesized
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With its two dimensions, painting can only represent space. But sculpture has three. It can absorb space into its own fabric. One of the key moments in this development came in 1912, when Pablo Picasso, then 31, snipped and bent some sheet metal into the semblance of a guitar. It...
The movie begins with stark images-still lifes snapped around a disused beach house, then female hands and pensive, pained faces. That style, an emblem of high seriousness, persists throughout a film one will remember mainly for its look: actors grouped in self-consciously arresting ways, costumes and sets done...
With regard to nakedness, Willa Kim's costumes may be the next better thing. They seem to seduce the bodies to which they so suggestively cling. Jules Fisher's lighting, like the hand of a master painter, seems to turn those same bod ies into efflorescent still lifes...
Unneccessarily bizarre imagery has often figured prominently in Ken Russell's films, and Valentino certainly upholds this self-indulgent tradition. Russell uses a flashback structure for the narrative. The film keeps returning to shots of Valentino's various former lovers and co-stars pouring out their reminiscences alongside Valentino's...
It was the octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and...