Word: painterly
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...realist painter Luo Zhong Li caused a stir after unveiling his latest work, “Father,” in Beijing. An enormous, close-up portrait of an expressionless Chinese peasant before a background of yellow landscape, the painting was seen as patronizing and unflattering by many critics. Despite these negative opinions, the work and the ethos that spurred it would become an inspiration for the Chinese cinematic revolution in the decade that followed. The 1984 film “Yellow Earth” from director Chen Kaige is just one of the many works that bears the influence...
...analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam, a painter, and Eve, his lover and one of Feynman’s students. The final thread involves the mythical Orpheus and Eurydice. Through these couples, the play expresses the laws of physics and the intangible, dual themes of death and passionate love. As the play progresses, the characters move...
...ensemble seek to celebrate beauty in dancers that differ from the norm. The show’s producer, Jeremy Alliger, commented that this “unique virtuosity” of disability let the choreographer explore original forms of expression. “Imagine a master Renaissance painter, for instance, who discovers a new color on his palette that never before existed,” Alliger says. “And imagine the excitement, and the new possibilities that open up to him.” GIMP explores the magnificence of these unconventional movements.Latsky uses the unappreciated aesthetics of these...
...Everyone thinks they can talk about art, they think that painting is a hobby, but it’s like operating on a patient.” says one member of the VES faculty who asked not to be named. “For someone who is a real painter, it’s a very serious thing, it is a profession, and at most schools they seem to understand that except here...
...attendance, providing unprecedented publicity opportunities for student artists participating in the show. Boston gallery buyers and representatives from the Institute of Contemporary Art, for example, are among the show’s prestigious invites.Kathleen E. Breeden ’09, head of the selection committee and a landscape painter, is excited about the professional nature of the show and the opportunity that it presents to Harvard artists. When asked about the selection criteria, Breeden said, “We’re going to be looking at the quality of the work and its size but also its sell-ability...