Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alberto Giacometti died at 65 in his native Switzerland eight years ago, he was already a figure of legend. His seamed casque of a head (like that of a Renaissance condottiere) and his cramped, dust-floured studio in Paris, had become almost as famous as Picasso's simian mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay stretched...
...Turquoise Mask, Whitney...
Redford does not have the mystery or the rough edge required for the role, but he is surprisingly good at conveying Gatsby's uneasiness. The social graces are not natural to him. He has a tenuous poise, a mask that falls away when he is introduced to Daisy's small daughter or when Nick pays him a sincere compliment that makes him, for the first time, smile genuinely. Redford also has a sense of Gatsby's obsession. His look of longing, fulfillment and hopelessness when he sees Daisy for the first time has, momentarily, the depth...
...mask in the photograph is of an Eskimo tribe--an important distinction, for there is a real difference in the qualities of the work of the arctic Eskimo and Aleut and the two other, more southern tribes. The signs at the show credit this difference to environment: icebergs giving inspiration to the open, bold images of the Eskimo, northern rain forests spawning the more colorful, stylized forms of the Indian tribes. This is true, as far as it goes, but there is another, a more foreign element that seperates further the styles of these two groups...
...ceremonial masks of the Indian tribes are less wild than the Eskimos'--they have less fear behind them. The simplified form of an Athabaskan fox-mask, a single piece of wood, doesn't convey a belief in the power behind it. The lush countryside of the Canadian coastal forest might explain this art's concentration on repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought...