Word: rectangularity
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...giant foot in Monty Python. What was once the museum's forecourt is now filled with a stepped facade some 300 feet long and, at its highest, 100 feet tall: a blind screen of yellow limestone, horizontal bands of green ceramic and patches of glass block, with a gargantuan rectangular entrance portal. The architects have so overdone their contextual homage to Hollywood Deco-Babylon that the effect verges on camp. Once inside, things recover: the galleries are large, well proportioned and properly lit, and LACMA's collection of 20th century art -- already the best on the West Coast -- has been...
...leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase, but the color -- pinks, carmines, chromes, lilacs and an orange that glows like a red-hot cannonball laid casually on the table -- would be disorienting if the strict harmony Matisse somehow imposed on it did not persuade...
...Priory Walk, 123 E. 19th Street). For some viewers, at least, her maturity as an artist begins with an outpouring of drawings and paintings around 1980, all on the same subject: the garden of a rented house in the south of France, an unremarkable scene of a small rectangular pool surrounded by a low boxwood hedge, rhododendrons and a claustrophobic screen of dank, suburban cypresses...
INSIDE THE INSTITUTE of Contemporary Art (ICA) a five-foot high black and white photograph of a cat--a simple shot pasted together from 16 smaller rectangular prints--hangs beside several photographs of desert rock brushed over with turpentine and enamel. Downstairs a collage of images made from videotape of the Mary Decker-Zola Budd Olympic confrontation faces Ku Khux Klan members garbed in colorful, hooded uniforms...
...easy task. While spectrograms made by one person repeating the same word look alike, those made by another differ considerably. Zue discovered, however, that no matter how unlike spectrograms appear, they all have certain features in common. For example, the s in stop will appear as a dark rectangular wedge, no matter who is talking. Zue eventually cataloged hundreds of these identifying features, learning to recognize syllables, words, even whole sentences and nonsense phrases...