Word: rectangularity
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...Chang is more than an artist who likes to make things black. Fluorescent City-Step posters and a wooden-encased, 70s family-style television break up the room's pretenses at modernism, as do the walls, which Change has repainted a "warm" white: "Dusky Santa Fe Rose." Two long rectangular mirrors hang horizontally, the longer on the bottom, above his bed. "People usually go, 'ooh kinky!' but I just though they made my room much larger." Except for a black satin bodysuit hanging in his closet amidst black leather jackets and old graphic design projects, one wouldn't know that...
Rothko's large soft-edged squares seem to vibrate when absorbing the brilliance of his colors. The Black and the White (1956) is a purely optical experience, as the impenetrable white square and a smaller, opaque black square thrust and recede simultaneously. A static red rectangular form sits atop the white square, emphasizing the purity of its whiteness. Rothko's other work in the show, Untitled Brown and Gray (1969), has similar effects. However, he explores the density of the colors; the squares are more saturated at the connecting border than they are at the edges. This uneven concentration...
...lively interview with the Big Three were managing editor James R. Gaines, assistant managing editors Ann Morrison and Joelle Attinger, and business editor Sam Gwynne. Considering the rivalry, Morrison found the encounter "surprisingly informal and cordial." Attinger, tongue in cheek, credits the furniture arrangement. At the last minute, a rectangular table was replaced with the more egalitarian round...
...Democratic party. The fax The Crimson received the day before the event described it as a "round table discussion"--pretty grandiose for a spin session between a semi-populist (he's from Ohio and he's not a lawyer) pol and five college reporters. Besides, it was a rectangular table...
Even when Hesse's work seems entirely abstract, it refers to bodily functions. Hang Up, 1966, looks at first like a trope about illusion and reality -- the big rectangular frame hanging on the wall with nothing in it, but with a loop of steel tube spilling onto the gallery floor and connecting the frame's top-left to its bottom-right corner. But again, there's a fleshy metaphor -- both tube and frame are wrapped in cloth, like bandaged parts of a patient, and the tube seems to be recirculating some kind of fluid. Blood? Lymph? Fantasies? Even in absence...