Word: lyrically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose that later so distressed him that he threatened to destroy the work with an automatic pistol...
...emotion over thought is expressed even by the fact that curves take precedence over straight lines or angles. When angularity occurs it is usually accompanied by a more structural effort, where space and form are more defined, as in "Ulysses." But on the whole, the curve, that is the lyric sense, prevails...
Here is both an eye for strength, unconfused with violence or misplaced emotion, and a feeling for lyric poetry, unconfounded with sweetness or saccharine romanticism. Aside from a few false notes, the chord rings true throughout...
...necessary, and necessarily as it was. Lorca could only have put together poetical monstrosities if he had not refused to fit the turbulent, phantasmagorical sensations he took in, to the regulated, steady, time-proven forms he was used to. It is perhaps an easy task to fit a love lyric or an ingenuous little casida into the neat octosyllabic line, but that line would prove a Procrustes' bed to a poem titled Landscape of the Urinating Multitudes or the description of a Harlem Saturday night...
...year, but it has several claims which cannot be denied. Brevity eliminates the need for that adjectival description on which critics exert so much useless effort. Directness elevates it above those Advocate pieces which are so enthralled with verbal and pictorial impressions that they cannot exclude but only include. Lyric ensures that no reader will be dissuaded until he has taken everything author Mike Wolfert has to offer...