Word: triptyches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nouveau swags on the façade of Art Hotel Boston, which despite its name is not in Massachusetts but in Turin, give no hint of the modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...
...with the women in Miller's lauded triptych Personal Velocity - which, like this movie, she adapted from her own book - Pippa is a woman on the verge of either a breakdown or an epiphany. The private lives of the title refer to both flashbacks to her youth (in which she's played by that stunning Gossip Girl Blake Lively) and to the odd, secretive relationship she's cautiously beginning with herself...
...ancient iconography or found objects, unite the displays. Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia inscribes sofreh (traditional tablecloths) with the fluctuating prices of daily foodstuffs sold by Tehran street peddlers, making a trenchant comment about Iran's punishing inflation. Egyptian artist Huda Lutfi applies images of Egyptian pop divas to a triptych of female torsos, reminiscent of Gaultier perfume bottles, raising issues of gender politics and societal roles. "Being trapped in certain roles is a universal cultural phenomenon," she says. But how wonderful to have it expressed in such fresh, unexpected quarters...
...altarpiece itself is not spectacular. Certainly, it is visually pleasing—it is called the Beffi Triptych after the village for which it was painted, and narrates the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ in an expressive and vibrant style. One panel depicts Christ’s nativity, another the death of the Virgin. Yet, this piece of art communicates numerous messages. It represents how— in a political world of words and numbers—a gesture can speak more loudly...
...gods and maharajahs gambol with busty dancing girls, rendered in golds, greens and russets by delicate, squirrel-tail brushes. But the standouts are the paintings of otherworldly subjects, works unlike any others produced in India at the time. Three Aspects of the Absolute, from 1823, is a startlingly modern triptych, with a plain gold panel to evoke the Absolute, followed by two others on which a holy man is depicted merging with the divine essence through yoga. Created by a Rajasthani artist named Bulaki, it jives uncannily with a contemporary aesthetic. The paint - real gold - hums with a depth...