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Though he uses a variety of mediums in this show, Shaw’s main tool is light. This is the running theme of the exhibit and the reason why all of his creations have power cords hanging out of them. Shaw works in mostly primary colors and basic shapes and while the result is fine, it is far from stunning. Just as it is easy to miss the fifth work in the show as you are walking into the gallery, it is easy to forget about it as you are walking out. But his “Green Lantern...
...blue, a close look at a snowflake and the yellow, a sunburst. None of these images is crisp around the edges—they all seem to fade into the black. The effect of this is that the images acquire movement. This is one of the few techniques Shaw uses that gives his work some intrigue. The snowflake appears to shrink as you look at it. The sun, whose edges are trimmed with orange, looks like it is fluttering. The way Shaw uses color and shading in these works is highly effective, as well. In “Etherea Blue?...
...real problem with this show, however, was the art itself. Or more accurately, it was the lack of art. When using simple colors and simple shapes to create art, as Shaw does in this exhibit, there has to be a lot of it. If Shaw was going to use the shapes and colors used by children, he should have remembered the learning technique most often employed by them as well: repetition. An entire gallery of simple lighted creations would have been stunning. New Light Works was not. The individual creations, especially the light boxes, had some merit individually, but they...
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Segal then proceeds to discuss the works of Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (yes, he of the famous political treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting...