Word: saints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...richest alumni, from old Saint Kris...
Just as ironic, but more pleasantly so, is that Salieri, that "Patron Saint of Mediocrities," has inspired such an ingenious and engrossing play. The final gem of irony, however, is merely a result of expert casting: Tolins, a sublime Salieri indeed, receives the standing ovation Salieri never deserved...
...work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does." Work and seriousness: this, not the vulgar image of the madman issuing orgasmic squirts of yellow and blue at the dictation of his lunacy, is the real Van Gogh of Saint-Remy and Auvers...
Quite often the works that seem most "expressionist," the clearest indexes of a mind approaching the end of its tether, are the most tenderly scrupulous in their treatment of fact. One has only to go to Saint-Remy and stand on the edge of the olive grove outside the asylum, looking south toward the chain of limestone hills called the Alpilles, to realize that Van Gogh changed nothing essential in the view when painting Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background in the spring of 1889. The heaving stratification of the limestone, its caverns and holes, and the turbulent...
...handwriting was not mechanically stamped on the landscape, as the style marks of mere obsessives tend to be. On the contrary, it was infinitely responsive to the nuances of fact. Dealing with the "difficult bottle-green hue" of his famous motif, the cypress (of which the real landscape around Saint-Remy is now disappointingly short), he went to great trouble to set forth the realities inside its hairy, obelisk-like silhouette: the mauve cast of shadow on the trunk and branches, the sparks of almost pure chrome within the enfolding darkness of its leaves...