Word: painting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really are, as the forest or the horse feel themselves-their absolute being-which lives behind the appearance which we see." Feininger, an American who emigrated to Germany in 1887, managed to blend cubism...
...work, equivalent to 3% months of full-time work. He continued to receive his full $26,100 annual district attorney's salary, of course, which helped pay for a $38,000 private airplane and a private deer-hunting lodge. Sabo, incidentally, once caught Cooksey using jail inmates to paint his house, but nothing came...
...script is well served by Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, The Front), who has collaborated with Cinematographer John Alonzo and Production Designer Robert Luthardt to paint the colorful Louisiana and New Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...
...everybody is avante-garde," Dine said, adding, "I don't want to destroy history, I want to make what is beautiful." Dine now works primarily with oil paint...
...washed out--almost, but not quite, hitting the mark with its orchestration, sets and costumes. The overture wobbles where it should be mellow; the idea of using the stage screen as a curtain was interesting, but the screen itself is too flimsy. Its paint job has not so much saucy style as the flapper it pictures, winking boldly at the audience. The garden of the millionaress, Jo Vanderwater, where most of the action takes place in Act One, is also a mite tacky for the palatial estate it is supposed to be. Moreover, the lighting is so dim that...