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...exhibit concentrates on the gestual element of abstract expressionism. Hans Hoffman's "Blue Rapsody", not one of his better efforts, dominates one wall of the gallery and features fire-work burst of paint. Hoffman who was probably more influential as a teacher than as a painter during his lifetime, generally filled his canvass with intense, vibrant color...
Ironically, Hoffman's painter colleagues who specialized in pessimistic views about the world expressed frequent feelings of pity for "poor Hans" who nevertheless adhered to a brighter view of things--a view which his canvases reflect. Hoffman, perhaps not in-coincidentally, was one of the few major abstract expressionists who did not commit suicide or experience periods of mental instability...
...making: Cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Claire's Knee) and Composer Ennio Morricone (1900). Their work is stunning; yet there is no mistaking Days of Heaven for anything other than an American movie. Malick's ability to capture the terror in plain, homespun settings recalls the spooky vistas of Painter Edward Hopper. The film's naive narration-recited in deadpan colloquialisms by the teen-age Linda-is right out of Ring Lardner's sardonic stories. In the tradition of these other native ironists, Malick keeps his distance from his material. Though built around a heartbreaking love triangle, Days...
...morning with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters. But New York, as always, is a state of mind; it is what you think it is. Not long ago a painter set up an easel on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting...
...cousin, Dolly Chadbourne, following the death of her parents. But Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with one Herman Fidler, a rebellious stockbroker who aspires to become a painter. Eventually she marries Jamey Coates, a principled if naive Wall Street lawyer, and saves him through various intrigues from the clutches of an unscrupulous partner who threatens to ruin them both...