Word: symbolisme
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So these two shows constitute an instructive journey through the achievements of a guild-like family whose work traversed nearly all the reigning styles of European art, from symbolism through post-impressionism to cubism, and thence, in Alberto Giacometti's work, through surrealism and out the other side. It...
The Exterminating Angel is disappointing Bunuel. His symbolism, for once, goes overboard without being effective. Usually Bunuel goes over-board--in outrageous fashion--but is effective. This movie should probably be described as fascinating, nevertheless.
The surrealists, the most determinedly shocking of the early modern artists, wanted to abolish tradition. They prided themselves on being revolution aries with no past, no precedents beyond the immortal, irrational desires of the human psyche. But one of the rules-of-thumb of art experience is that very little...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, is still playing in Boston, and it's probably still as exciting as ever. It's about an inmate rebellion in a lunatic asylum, I guess, but it's got enough jokes and high drama and Christ symbolism and whatnot...
Quadrophenia is much more luced. Just as it addresses itself to the rock in "rock opera," it draws on a readily recognizable context: the Mod-Rocker wars of the middle sixties. From which wars sprung The Who, among many. While Tommy's hollow symbolism may have destroyed its viability, Quadrophenia...