Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character named Hero speaks those lines with drawn cynicism in the climactic scene of The Rehearsal, one of the few glittering productions in the dismal new season on Broadway. It is the motif of the play and the motif of Playwright Jean Anouilh, who is perhaps the most produced of all living playwrights. Since the death of Jean Giraudoux almost 20 years ago, Anouilh (ahn-oo-ee) has been the essential voice of the French theater-a voice that speaks so dryly of shattered hope that you can almost hear it break...
...Ambiance, as Nicole Alphand uses it, is the total atmosphere of a place, achieved by arranging everything around a central motif...
HUGO WEBER-Howard Wise, 50 West 57th St. Last year's show by the Swiss-born abstractionist had a rivers-of-the-world motif. Now Weber has turned to love; his titles contain the word over and over. The paintings could just as easily be about indigestion. Through...
...subjects are uneasily seated atop a dais, sprawled in frank nakedness on a couch, wrestling through homosexual positions on a podium. In last year's Three Studies for a Crucifixion, a motif he has been studying since 1931, Bacon painted a triptych more than 14 ft. wide with enigmatic figures and bony carcasses looming in red oval rooms. The central panel contains a kneaded corpse lying in bed amidst a welter of congealed gore. There is no more overt Christian symbolism than that every man can find himself martyred meaninglessly. And the source of Bacon's idea...
Musicians are a favorite motif. Her "Music Makers" shows a bald, pensive man resting his head on his hands and facing a woman, apparently depressed, who plays a flute. In the background, a girl with an expression of acute misery on her face plays another flute and a second girl stands with her hand covering her lower face. As in most of the paintings, reds and oranges abound and pale but acid greens and yellows dominate the faces. The group may very well be a family...