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...broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might have been lifted straight from Ruisdael. Hadleigh Castle, 1829, with its tall split tower and ruins behind, virtually repeats the motif of Ruisdael's melancholy Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, painted 170 years before...
...16th century artists from Altdorfer to Leonardo, was echoed by Ruisdael in a small panorama of Amsterdam seen from the scaffolding of the unfinished New Town Hall. He also made his homages to the landscape of symbols. The most spectacular paysage moralisé in his work was the motif for two versions of The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1655. This gloomy landscape pullulates with symbols: the broken tree over the dark brook, suggesting a bridge across the Styx; the wan rainbow; the ruins, the air of desolation, transience and decay; and the crystalline, stony geometry of the tombs. Their purity interested...
...told" motif of the Watergate literature seems to have a dual purpose. First, the authors are trying to salvage the little that is left of their images as legitimate public figures. Never mind that what the Deans and Liddys see as fame is really infamy; the irony that their notoriety results from their misdeeds is lost on them. And second, the Deans and Colsons want to set the historical record straight about their roles in Watergate, to state once and for all that their motives were pure and that they were the victims of forces beyond their control--Nixon...
From most of the drawings at Knoedler's, the image of landscape has receded. It is displaced-though not wholly abolished-by a curious motif Diebenkorn refers to as his "ace of spades," and which does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock...
DIED. Harvey Lembeck, 58, wisecracking actor who played the goldbricking Corporal Rocco Barbella in Phil Silvers' TV show, You 'II Never Get Rich; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A military motif threaded through the career of Lembeck, a World War II veteran. He played a prisoner of war in the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Stalag 17, a duty sergeant in the film The Last Time I Saw Archie and a soldier in the movie Back at the Front...