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...oils, and they are apt to be treated as wallflowers. The 74 watercolors on view in Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co. form the biggest assembly of these fragile sketches since the 1907 memorial show in Paris, held a year after Cézanne died. They are priceless, rainbow-hued documents of his passionate, lifelong homage to nature, but Cézanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends...
...child could find "mysteries in the recesses of buildings and strange figures walking on the roofs and in the streets." He recorded these in a series of sketches of scrawled little figures doing every sort of everyday act from walking in the rain to gazing at a rainbow. Feininger also saw mystery in the machine, but his machines tended to come either from the past or from way off in the future. His nostalgic Old Locomotive is almost like a person-a gallant, superannuated old gentleman that keeps chugging along out of sheer determination and stubborn pride...
...groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only two paddles as props, the players sway and dip with uncannily precise imprecision, lyrically evoking a sampan bobbing on the water...
...gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time...
Much more successful were Charles Ives' three miniatures for chamber orchestra, The Rainbow (1914), The Pond (1906), and The Unanswered Question (1906). The first two are really instrumental solos, which Ives also composed as songs. In their accompaniments, lines slither around to transform the traditional harmonic basis into something quite live and active. In The Unanswered Question Ives exploits a favorite device of his, two independent ensembles. One, the muted strings, provides a constant background, labelled "the eternal silence of the Druids." The other, a few woodwinds, attempts to answer the question proposed by a solo trumpet. The woodwinds...