Word: seurat
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...claimant has yet appeared for any of the French or Israeli works on display - a reminder, perhaps, of how ruthlessly thorough the Nazis were in killing more than 6 million Jews. Up for grabs are canvases by Egon Schiele, Marc Chagall, Eugène Delacroix, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat...
...space of a single seven-day period in mid-January, I paid a final visit to an exhibition of Seurat's drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, took two children there the next day to see a show by the sculptor Martin Puryear, attended the opening night of Wagner's Die Walkure at the Metropolitan Opera, caught a couple of movies, including an old Robert Mitchum vehicle at an Otto Preminger film festival, and scored tickets to the revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming on Broadway. (Long Pinteresque pause here.) On the seventh day I rested...
...that nothing can resist the gilded wrecking ball of the developers. But the struggle to find some way out will determine whether New York remains a city where you can see Seurat, Pinter and Wagner all in one week, or become a place where the only music that counts is the jingle of coins...
...impressed by the medium used by Sally H. Rinehart ’09. Rinehart used Avery sticky dots—small circular adhesive labels, to compose two parallel portraits in different sets of colors, resulting in a unique form of pointillism, the style often associated with Georges-Pierre Seurat. Artist Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09 referred to her piece as a “psychological self-portrait.” Mounted next to a depiction of herself—which shows Bringsjord posed in front of a refrigerator, milk bottle in hand—is a letter explaining...
...resolution.Artists have long turned to pixels as a medium, from the stunning Roman, Byzantine and early Christian mosaics (think of “Alexander at Issus,” or Ravanna’s splendid ceilings), to the Impressionistic dabs of paint employed by Monet and the Pointillism of Seurat and Signac. Chuck Close became famous for his large-scale portraits, using a grid of abstract pixels to create the larger picture.Smuts’s monochromatic panels recall all this, and also consciously take a jab at the monochromatic paintings of the early minimalists. For Smuts, each tessera...