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Besides decorating utilitarian objects of all kinds with the characteristic Maori spiral, the master sculptors devoted themselves to carving monumental male figures that represented their ancestors. These wooden sculptures, often colored in red ocher, topped the gables and lintels of Maori houses. Others served as posts in palisades or as rods holding up the ridge-poles of roofs. The most impressive figures straddled the narrow gateways leading to storage houses or fortified villages...
...naive these days to believe that artists can literally function as shamans or magicians. Certainly Motherwell does not think so. But he fervently believes in the efficacy of signs, the ability of quite simple configurations to carry and release powerful associative cargo. The blue triangle of paint above the ocher and earth-red bars of Summertime in Italy, No. 28, 1962, offers all the sense of being in a landscape: light and wind stream from the blue, heat radiates from the brown. Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, a lengthy series that lasted some 30 years and ended...
...Andropov well knew, there is nothing at all similar about the position Bush held for a year and the powers that the Soviet leader wielded for 15 years as chief of the world's largest spy and state-security machine. From an office in the KGB's ocher-colored neo-Renaissance headquarters at 2 Dzerzhinsky Square,* barely a mile from the Kremlin, the head of the KGB oversees an intricate network of espionage and information-gathering operations that further the political objectives of the Communist Party. Unlike the CIA, the KGB works both abroad and at home, doing...
...however, have always tended to be the ones of "natural vision": the vast pearly expanses of flat Dutch land, richly differentiated in light and shadow; and the woodland scenes. Without straining for effect, he hit the exact note over and over again. Even a self-conscious device, like the ocher scar on the old oak that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise eye for detail, the loving description of foliage...
With Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...