Word: poses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keyboard Richter leans backward at a precipitous angle, arms outstretched, head tossed back and gazing upward, as if toward heaven. The rapture suggested by such a pose separates Richter's artistry from that of his more earthbound contemporaries (although he can generate raw energy with the best of them -- just listen to his performance of the Schumann Toccata). Moreover, in the catholicity of his repertoire (far greater than Horowitz's) and the breadth of his interpretive insight, Richter leaves the competition behind...
...show of virtuosity for others, such as was common among other 17th century artists. All his drawings were for his own use, memory aids or steps toward a finished composition, and they don't bother with seducing the eye. They are pragmatic expressions of the desire to understand a pose, a set of figures, or a structure of tonal relationships, bluntly set down in strokes of the pen and unfussed dabs of ink wash. For the sensuous side of Poussin one must consult the paintings, in all their majesty of color: the ultramarine blues, vermilions, gold-yellows, unfurled against...
...with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions, lie in Raphael. With its structure of color, bound by a repeated accent of red, with its perspective lines, its golden- section ratios, its echoes and reversals of pose and gesture, and the contrast of the milling crowd of figures with the stately columns of the temple, it is an incredibly complicated pictorial machine. The chaos of its violence has a dreamlike clarity. But the cruelty and amazement in it transfigure the abstraction of Poussin's system. The bound...
...upward while the imperious hand of Apollo redirects his attention to the text in his hand and the muse Calliope gives him a level look of benign assessment, might as well be Poussin himself. The allegory unfolds in a luminous calm but is grounded by discreet observation: the relaxed pose of Apollo's arm resting on the lyre, the physical beauty of the Muse, the crispness of her yellow-and-white drapery...
LIBERALS COULD NOT STOMACH THE IDEA of a black conservative Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, because of the intellectual threat he would pose to their racial and social agendas. So they set out to defeat the nomination of Clarence Thomas, and when that failed, they decided to do everything possible to negate his influence. The new book Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which you reviewed ((Books, Nov. 14)), shows a part of that scheme. But what is Thomas accused of? Behaving crudely toward Anita Hill. Either it never happened, or it was so minor that...