Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest crusade for promotion to Level Two is being made this spring by the Harvard women's softball team. Women's softball, which suffered from poor coaching and spring fever to produce somewhat of a diamond horror show in its first season last year, has been considerably resurrected this time around by the efforts of concerned players and first-year coach Brad Elmblad...
...show, which includes over 100 pieces, catalogs every step of Davis's career. Davis started out painting realism and moved quickly out of that stage under the influence of European post-Impressionists and cubists. Indeed the first two rooms of paintings strongly echo Picasso, Gris and Leger. Davis, as the chronology points out, was heavily involved in artists organizations, especially during the Depression, and campaigned for recognition of the political and social importance of art and artists. After the Depression, Davis developed some of his most important theories and settled into a style using brilliant colors, well-defined shapes...
...hints about the theory behind Davis's art are given in the chronology of Davis's life at the start of the show and in the pages from some of Davis's unpublished studies of theory that are displayed as art objects. But the hints are as frustratingly vague as they are tantalizingly interesting. In a study for his work "Reconditioned Eggbeaters," Davis scrawls, "Only a Marc is a Noun. Only an Operative Scar is a Noun. Art exists as a Syntax of Scars." Pages from one of his studies of color begin to explore the relationships between different colors...
Standing alone, Davis's works are fun. In the context of his art theory, they pose perplexing but mind-teasing problems. The Fogg show is undeniably well-put-together and definitely worth a visit, but it disappoints if its goal is to explain how a modern artist like Davis comes to paint what he does...
...ravings. Myers fails to stress the other side of the emperor--the cool, calculating, dispassionate side. After a while, the audience feels like it is on a roller-coaster--one gets the stop-and-start effect, but it's a little difficult to enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health by falling several feet from a platform, blood dripping from numerous bodily wounds, contemplating the certainty of death with a believable look of awe, ecstasy and agony...