Word: slavishly
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...tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective and sinuous contours...
...Slowly. Just as he painstakingly analyzes a business investment, Simon buys art slowly. Often, he will study a painting for a year before acquiring it. His collection began ten years ago with a Bonnard, broadened into other 19th century postimpressionists (he owns twelve Degas, nine Cezannes), yet is not slavish to any one style. He scattered Picassos throughout his William Pereira-de-signed administration building in Fullerton, Calif., and then smoothly turned to Renaissance painting...
...screamed in a breathtaking solo. Watanbe (who is really good enough to play with anyone) had excellent support: the melodic, unpretentious piano of Brian Cooke, Saltonstall's bass, and Billy Elgart's drums. Trumpeter Ken Houk still has problems making himself understood; but he is moving away from a slavish Miles Davis style and starting to do some interesting tricks with rhythm...
...stuffy, he dutifully garlanded a guitar with ivy and epaulets, fitted a stool with four female legs clad in silk stockings. But if he seemed to be trying only to be fashionable, he was nonetheless learning to break down the four dimensions of cubism, and to free art from slavish analysis of natural structure. A show of 47 works that opens this week at Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries shows how distant he got from nature, yet how close he remained...
...manifesto that appeared in Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just about everything sacred to the Mexican art world. Damned as academismo were slavish and parochial imitations of Diego Rivera's once-revolutionary social realism. Damned as dehumanized decoration were equally slavish imitations of the abstract styles imported from other lands. "We strive," said the manifesto writers, "for an art that communicates in the clearest and most direct way possible our commitment...