Word: naivete
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...appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal, ordinary objects in his apartment and studio, Guston began to paint shoes, books, easels, clocks and the like with a confident, almost crude, naivet, reveling in the physical nature of things, of paint and of the act of painting. The ensemble of 27 small paintings in A New Alphabet that together recreate a wall of Guston's Woodstock, N.Y. home circa 1970 neatly represents the range and form of Guston's new vocabulary. Indeed, each...
...dark and painfully funny. An exploration of possibilities that we are, understandably, reluctant to consider, the play calls upon us to simultaneously loathe, pity and identify with aspects of each of its characters. As we see more and more of our own petty, vindictive natures, self-delusionment, ambition and naivet played out on the stage before us, we come to understand this celebration of a love too strong to be destroyed and an anger too intense to be abandoned. When the final blackout comes, you _will_ be afraid...