Word: triptyches
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...LOEB'S Morning Noon, and Night is not so much vulgar as it is confused, not so much confused as it is funny, not so much funny as it is painful. And painful precisely because its triptych view of America is so very...
...studio on the military compound at Baden-Baden. Shortly afterward, his commander, General Paul Vanuxem, appeared and watched for hours as Ponelle, a onetime student of Leger, painted a 30-foot, three-paneled canvas glorifying the French army. A few months after Ponelle finished the mammoth triptych, Vanuxem was arrested as a secret leader of the O.A.S. and jailed, winning acquittal only after a two-year fight. The painting he commissioned was installed in a Roman Catholic church on the base, and was not shown to the public for years...
...triptych centers on what can only be a dismembered corpse, with blood spattered on the castoff clothing and zippered travel bag. On either side are matching panels, which may - or may not - be the orgiastic prelude to butchery. On the left, two plump nude figures lie exhausted on a curious coffee table covered with mattresses and fitted with a mirror for self-viewing. On the right, two figures are ravenously devouring each other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon...
Multiple images, reflecting different aspects of his subjects, have been a Gill hallmark ever since his first artistic success, a triptych commemorating the tragic suicide of Marilyn Monroe in 1962. That painting started the artist on a prolific career that has already put his paintings in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago...
Getting the pictures for the color pages that run with the cover story presented similar technical and artistic problems. For the Triptych scene, Photographer Ormond Gigli had to ask the dancers to freeze in mid-motion. In several cases, performers left busy rehearsal schedules in austere studios to re-create their dances for Color Projects Researcher Andrea Svedberg and the cameramen in settings that made for better photography...