Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look." For Jackson Pollock, in 1944, "the only American master who interests me is Ryder." From Andrew Wyeth and Morris Graves in the 1940s to Bill Jensen today, Ryder influenced or at least had some talismanic value for a striking number...
...dozen paintings before which one can feel the enthusiasm Ryder's name has always generated. Most of these are his famous "marines" -- dark, concentrated images of boats, the fishing smacks of his New England youth, pitted against wind and wave under the centered, tide- dragging eye of the moon. But then there is the rest of his work, and especially the earlier religious and allegorical material, much of which is bathetic and some quite ludicrous in its earnest gropings toward elevated pictorial speech...
...actually painted on board ship, returning from a trip to Europe) go far beyond the self-conscious poeticism that infests so much of Ryder's work. They are diminutive in size but large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat...
...friend: "I never knew the number of the street she lived on because it seemed such a silly little neighborhood for Ethel Barrymore. It didn't have any connection with Ethel . . . but then I don't think I'd ever associate anything with Ethel but a castle on the moon...
...increasingly troublesome -- is his reliance on retreaded riffs and shopworn memories. Graffiti Bridge, the movie for which the album is the sound track, looks loopy, narcissistic and generally dispirited. It continues Prince's unrequited love affair with the cinema that began with his 1986 flop Under the Cherry Moon...