Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were influenced heavily by the music of the great sitar player, Ravi Shankar. We all know about the therapeutic powers of yoga--and, for better or worse, the teachings of Deepak Chopra. No Doubt's Gwen Stefani is oft-seen wearing a bindi on her forehead; mehndi, the decorative paint worn by many Indian brides, has become quite popular among Western women. Even Nehru jackets may someday make a comeback...
...West, the prodigy from Philadelphia, had brought it off--but by going to London and soaking himself in its prototypes. In America would-be artists had to rely on an erratic supply of prints for their clues to elevated diction, but there was hardly any local market for history painting. John Trumbull, president of the American Academy of Fine Arts, whose lifelong ambition was to commemorate the American Revolution in paint on an official scale, died a bitterly disappointed...
Mount's preferred tone was down-home and nationalist: he was the first artist to paint the Yankee as a type. He painted barn dances, parlor courtships, farmers husking corn, truant children and jolly drunks. "Never paint for the few but for the many," he reminded himself in one of the numerous notebooks he kept, and the manifesto of this belief (not, alas, in this show) is The Painter's Triumph, 1838. It depicts Mount himself in a mood of exaltation, flourishing his palette and brushes and pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer...
...rises diagonally across the picture: a bath, like an immense open oyster, in which floats the body of a woman, all legs, shining indistinctly in the water. She seems in a trance--her face can't be read as a face but more as a spongy clump of jeweled paint. She is as indifferent as coral, not posing but tenderly spied...
Helen Hunt, garlanded with Oscars and Emmys, plays Viola in Nicholas Hytner's production; but the show's real star is Crowley. He has joined the short list of masters in a fertile era for stage designers. Such wizards of pencil and paint as Tony Walton (Guys and Dolls), Robin Wagner (Crazy for You), John Napier (Cats) and Heidi Ettinger (The Secret Garden) create unique worlds from a playwright's words and a director's hopes. When you leave a show "humming the sets," these are the folks to thank for those sumptuous visual melodies...