Word: tonalism
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...bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
...crew was doing just that, Parker was also cautious. Usually, if you ask him a question, he'll tilt his head up, roll back his eyes and answer with a calm, "Oh really?" or "Not really" or just plain "really" which every Harvard oarsman can mimick in tonal perfection. When he wants to think about something, Parker will look out the nearest window and there will be a long, uneasy silence...
...with all their formal elegance and highly-keyed tones, these pictures seem ultimately somewhat artificial. They are quite marvelously photographed, but they are also anachronistic. The great photographers of nature Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams--have been able to make photographs full of the tonal richness and graphic simplicity which typifies Rosenblum's work, but Rosenblum's pictures of the "humanscape" seem to lack the sort of passionate involvement with their particular subject that the "nature scapes" of Weston, Strand and Adams had with theirs. Perhaps it is as simple a matter as the fact that human faces...
...Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully--considered, composed and crafted. This style reached its peak in the 40's with the work of Edward Weston. Weston photographed mainly nudes, still lifes and landscapes, emphasizing the photograph's wide, tonal scale and capacity to render diamond-sharp details...
...Bernstein's treatment of Schoenberg suffers from the same dogmatism he criticizes in Adorno. His failure is a failure to listen to the music on its own terms. He imposes his tonal expectations on works that have a different internal logic. He points triumphantly to the Bach chorale quoted at the end of Berg's Violin Concerto, without recognizing it as a historical allusion like those he found in Stravinsky and Eliot. Berg used tonal devices frequently for certain kinds of effects, but rarely as a basic principle of his music...