Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrath. Carl Dreyer's somber portrait gallery of witches and nonprofessional evildoers in 17th Century Denmark. Beautifully acted (TIME...
Among the old masterpieces from Germany now touring the U.S. (last week they were in Philadelphia) was one painting that was almost out of place, it looked so modern. It was a scene bathed in sickly torchlight, chill as a tomb, still as death-a stark and somber painting called Saint Sebastian Mourned by Saint Irene. To most gallerygoers the name under it-Georges de la Tour-meant nothing...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...
When 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky jumped briskly to the podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers...
...style and feeling, Fall River Legend reminded some balletomanes of Antony Tudor's somber Pillar of Fire. But it had plenty of De Mille trademarks too: miming, scurrying, fast-paced freshness...