Word: manneristic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never doubted his vocation as a painter, in which his family encouraged him. He was a shy, insecure and aloof young man; if one did not know this from the testimony of his friends, one would gather it from his early self-portraits, with their veiled look of mannerist inwardness acquired from Pontormo. It seems he was unusually devoid of narcissism: unlike almost every other 19th century painter one has heard of, he gave up painting his own face at 31. It was the Other that fascinated him, all faces except...
...Dyke. Simon estimates that 700 paintings by these and other masters were sold, and eventually found various ways into the world's museums. One immovable prize was the Gonzaga pleasure palace at Te, the walls and ceilings of which bloomed with mural paintings that were forerunners of the mannerist style...
...dogmas of visual rationalism just at the moment when the crude baroque of psychedelia was popping up on posters all over San Francisco. That formative combination may explain why Manwaring still seeks to produce images on the border between the orderly and the wild, at once restrained and mannerist. A wine label for Sonoma County's small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed...
...nuclear power. "O.K.," he barks when they cross him, "from now on I do my business with the Chinese!" Sporting a cad's mustache and Walter Denton's whiny voice, Penn is a funny, harrowing wonder of energy. No other young actor so cunningly combines the mannerist danger of the Brando-De Niro school with the articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film...
...foremost masterpieces in modern Scandinavian design are still those of the familiar masters, among them Aalto, Wirkkala, Denmark's Arne Jacobsen, and Sweden's Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius. But there are also many new names to reassure us that the tradition need not regress to mannerist neodeco or yield to the common denominator of market-researched commercialism. Scandinavian design, in fact, is still as vigorous at the end of this century as it was at the beginning...