Word: symbolisme
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Weston was among the generation of photographers whose conversion to sharp focus from soft-edged pictorialism was the hinge on which the rest of the century's camerawork would turn. By the early 1920s he had already established an international reputation for mildly swoony images in gray-beige tones. He...
Bonnard's light and Matisse's luxe, run through Greenberg's reduction mill and then filtered by Louis' own obsession with the ethereal, came out in a curiously attenuated form. But it supported -- and after Louis' death was in turn supported by -- the argument that after Pollock painting had only...
2 p.m....Patty looks on as Sam Star argues over how the scene should be directed. "Clearly, when I walk from the chair to the door, a greater sense of symbolism is implied. I mean, think of the power, the emotional depth of the scene. I know, let's shoot...
In an attempt to capture the symbolism of the quadrennial world Olympics, Mike N. Druckman '87, chairman of Leverett's version, marked the beginning of the games by dressing up in a toga and carrying a bic lighter through the Leverett House dining hall.
MORE IMPORTANT, Banks does not prepare us for the unusual story that unfolds. Program notes provide some background of the ancient Noh tradition--its heavy reliance on symbolism and subtle gestures, for instance--but the notes don't explain the underlying legend with which the typical Japanese audience would already...