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...Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
...figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close-up of a blond schoolgirl's face abruptly eclipsed...
Inspired by winds that buffet her home in Reseda, Calif., each November, Clemmons recalled that even stronger winds blow in Egypt from February through June. Then she remembered that the Egyptians mass-produced linen for sailcloth, and that some of their hieroglyphs suggest that the pyramids were raised by "invisible gods in the sky." Clemmons concluded that the ancient Egyptians could have used a system of large kites to lift the pyramid stones into place...
Rockwell could. He knew how a few brushstrokes can mimic wet hair, effulgent sunlight, gunmetal, crinoline, catsup, cardboard, painted brick and polished linoleum. And he got those effects without losing sight of the muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual...
What this means in actual threads is lots of variations on cargo and sailor pants; safari-esque tops that Bartlett calls "ranger" shirts; jackets and trousers made of sailcloth, waxed cotton or suede; and colors that range from "cement" and "sand" to "citrus." Bartlett offers his customers a chance to dress dangerously but not ludicrously (well, except maybe for the hot pink cashmere stretch jacket paired with hot pink leather pants...