Word: rorschacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacked as being sentimental or anecdotal. The result is that many teachers cannot draw well and neither can their pupils. Therefore they are doomed to create what I call geometrical or biological abstractions-Scotch plaid or turkey-dinner paintings." Hale's own drawings look rather like Rorschach tests that the doctor never thought of. Using India ink and a very long brush, Hale sketches in the shadows of ideas. These blotlike shadows have sensitivity and boldness-a happy combination-but what do they signify? Plenty, he says: "In some cases I think I have achieved negative realism...
...ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric precision of that picture. Instead it is warm, accidental, lifelike, full of lucky hits, preposterous misses, and all sorts of surprises. A comedy of morals as well as manners, the film seems, like the Rorschach test, no more than an amusing game, but it soon develops some remarkable insights into the character and predicament of human beings...