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...certainly since the time of Bernini and his followers in the 17th century. It moved, to put it roughly, from the lump to the web: from closed mass to open, constructed form. What happened to it then is set forth in a beautifully chosen, concise exhibition called "The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932," organized by Curator Margit Rowell, which opened last month at New York's Guggenheim Museum...
...studies of guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms in line and space, the illusion of projected sound created by the protruding opening in his "Guitar" sculpture. Blazing color and musical notes, his "Three Musicians" link abstract shape to abstract shape to become the instruments they are holding, while his multi-planar "Harlequin" dances jerkily to the tune of bright diamonds and squares...
...more than his style, it is Shahn's choice of subject and statement that cut the same in both painting and photo; a social realist, influenced by the Cubists, he captures different planar levels in "Roadside Inns," "Destitute Ozark Residents," and "Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas." The young girls picking cotton carry their long white bags like wedding trains falling in curves down the foreground of the photo. These cotton workers are as much tied to their jobs as the black woman in "Relief Check, Scotts Run, West Virginia" is tied to a life on welfare. Leaning out the window...
...only building on this continent and Harvard's most exciting one. You can walk under and through the VAC three different ways without even getting inside. The only entrance is hidden from the street, under an overhang, and near the building's geometric center. Its combination of curved and planar surface screate a kind of dynamic visual movement few buildings have. Its axis is on a diagonal from Quincy St.; but the exterior has no "sides...
...Wagons, which Smith undertook at the end of his life, have a more playful quality than most of his previous sculptures. The wheels and the lightness of the forms add a greater sensation of motion. But these pieces also attempt to maintain the planar illusion of Smith's previous sculpture. Wagon I teases the viewer with a very full three dimensional, melonlike form in the center of the composition which is made to appear flat by a combination of the planar surfaces of the wheels, the linear effect of the bar on which the forms rests, and the strong effect...