Word: rorschacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's new John F. Kennedy Federal Building is a full 180 sq. ft., cost $25,000, and was simply titled by its painter, Robert Motherwell, New England Elegy. But it did not remain that for long. Up on the wall last week it became everyone's Rorschach. Office workers began to see in the top black band the outlines of a gun stock. Then reports got around that the title was actually The Tragedy of President Kennedy's Death...
Nikolais offers no explanations for what he calls his "esthetic Rorschach." He prefers instead that each viewer see what he will see. More than dance, it is an ingenious melding of motion (often frenetic), shape (usually grotesque), color (always striking), light (constantly changing) and sound (super-stereophonic) into new and fresh dimensions that bedazzle and often trick the eye. In Vaudeville, for example, a trio of dancers in hooped robes froze into off-center angles that looked gravitationally impossible, then somehow contorted their bodies to look like snails, then toadstools. By the projection of silhouettes on a backdrop, a slip...
...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
...Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...
...People see what they "need" to see. The pupil of the eye dilates on seeing pleasant things, contracts at distasteful things. The more ambiguous the view, the more it rouses preconceptions-as in the Rorschach test, for example. Seeing is so subjective that coins of the same size look bigger to poor children than to rich children. suggestible subjects: children aged seven to eight, girls and women, people with higher...