Word: tonality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RAWLS is going to go to war and the rest of of will stay at home. "Let me give it to you straight," the multi-tonal diplomat told America's youth in a widely circulated series of "public service" ads. "Register--not because it's the law...cause it's the right thing...
...pipestem to pull them back to reality. As he moved forward, he found in collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life?newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting. Cut them out, put them in. The tonal values of some of his finest collages have been ruined by age. The newsprint, once gray on white, is now cigar-brown. But in better preserved ones, like Violin and Sheet Music, 1912, the original effect remains: a magnificently Apollonian interplay of blue, gray, white and black on its ocher...
...Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members and molded them into a unit renowned for its tonal sheen and bravura. As he has said: "The Philadelphia sound...
...instead of trying like Gauguin or Van Gogh to push beyond it. They are represented too, to the confusion of the term: if post-impressionism means not only Van Gogh's Arlesian canvases, in all their lambent color and twisting, linear energies, but also the eclectic products of a tonal impressionist like Jules Bastien-Lepage, with his soulful peasant girls in burlap, what can it mean? To what imaginable modernist context do the many style rétro canvases in this show belong?Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Mme. Max, for instance, or Albert Maignan's Passage of Fortune, 1895, with...