Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that battling, indispensable institution -- offers a rare chance to see his work in some depth. It isn't a full retrospective or anything like one: it leaves out Lam's youth and age and concentrates only on his middle years, especially those spent in Cuba. Its object is to sketch the kind of relations Lam set up between his Afro-Cuban heritage, the work of other Cuban artists, and the avant-gardes (the word still meant something in the '40s) of Paris and New ) York. Its catalog, with essays by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Lowery Stokes Sims and others, does...
...refined his best artistic tendencies. Mature artists often simplify, discard the old frills, decide what's important. Miller is 77 now; he has nothing to prove but much to tell, in a few words. The Last Yankee qualifies as prime old-man's art. It is just a sketch, really -- some lines that reveal the contours of a soul. In his final days, Matisse did work like this...
Chances are that this would not be an accurate sketch of the Tupperware parties of years past. Of course, Maimonis doesn't fit the precise mold of the "Tupperware lady" either...
Danny Shivakumar almost steals the show with his charming portrayal of Dvornicek the porter. He constantly interrupts the main action and both abets and confounds Turais's plans. The role of Dvornicek is necessary both to sketch and flesh out the lines this play keep crossing between a Noel Coward-style romp and a post-modern mockery. The first scene is the weakest and least lively, probably because it is the most "straight" and Stoppard's script seems confined at first by the boundaries he had set for himself. The show really begins in the second scene where the silly...
...differs from the rest in its scope is Vindice. Tonto Silverado faces an uphill struggle with this brooding, intense character. As the central character, Vindice is less a striking caricature than a constant factor in the drama. But even Silverado gets a chance to produce a brief fantastic comic sketch like the others when Vindice impersonates an ingratiating pimp...