Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unless Britain can learn to support itself or rally further outside support, the prospect is stark. Perhaps in six months, perhaps in a year, the British will almost certainly have to face up to the agony of devaluation...
...creating their own academy of cool, they have produced a spartan art, aggressive and sometimes playful in its stark shapes. The viewer seems to be asked to overcome the chilly look of their bleak morphology, cloying pastel colorism and inert gigantism. Impersonal, almost deliberately dull, such objects require the maximum from the observer, offer the minimum in return. And if the viewer does not care to make the effort, he can well conclude that less is not always more...
...when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million francs to a notorious Russian sadist who tortured her nightly until the Czar intervened. In 1860, after a last grand fling under...
...props of episodic, cartoon-strip clarity, and at the same time strive to render its essential agony. Barnett Newman, 61, the most abstract of the U.S. abstract expressionists, made the problem even harder: he resolved to limit himself to his own astringent style, depict Christ's passage in stark vertical chords, using only black and white on raw unprimed canvas...
Technically, however, Matthew is not so stark. Just as the Bible makes poetry out of repititions which we might find intolerable in a secular epic, so this film establishes, and uses powerfully, three devices that might elsewhere seem annoying mannerisms...