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...design of a company tie can be a topic important enough to require top-management decision. At Cleveland Trust Co., key executives spent months debating the company tie's pattern and testing various samples on associates. They finally settled on a stylized CT motif...
...injection of feeling into conventional subject matter that the century has to offer. Indeed, the effort was such that it carried him past the end of the picture into a series of weeping women's heads, which show, even more clearly than Guernica, how Picasso could saturate a motif with meaning, to the point where it could hold no more truth. This free passage from feeling into meaning was the ing into meaning was the essence of his genius. Even when he was painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form...
SUCH A solemn opera is bound to be slightly melodramatic, but this cast manages to avoid it somehow. The problems, however, include a few weak stage blockings, causing overcrowding in the corners of the stage. The white vs. black costume motif molds the opera into a fairy tale rather than allowing it to unfold like a mystery...
...tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make no perceptible reference to Africa...
...most mysterious piece in the show (and the least reproducible) is Victory Over Sin, 1980, a room designed by West Coast Artist David Hammons. What one sees, by the light of a yellowish ceiling lamp, is three gray walls covered with a repeated motif of two kidney shapes, each with a pair of fuzzy black dots, which, on close inspection, turn out to be human hair. The floor has sprouted barely visible wands and reeds, no higher than low marsh grass, each painted in bands of primary color and adorned with more of the same hair. A burial site...