Word: triptychs
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...Triptych. The conflict in South Africa is not simply a matter of black v. white. It is a triptych of Boer, Briton and Bantu Negro...
Last week a Manhattan gallery displayed Beckmann's last oils, including a triptych called The Argonauts, which he finished the day before he died (TIME, Jan. 8). The triptych is not so brutally full-blooded as his best, but its heavy-fleshed figures looming against a sunset world of hot & cold colors characterize both the man and his work...
...build-up was impressive: Rico Lebrun, who at 51 is among the nation's most respected artists, devoted five years to planning and painting a giant triptych entitled Crucifixion; it was well received by his Los Angeles neighbors, and last week Manhattan's choosy Museum of Modern Art had the picture on show. The work itself turned out to be something of a shocker...
...lacks, Lebrun's triptych does have great force-enough to compete with war pictures and even neon signs. That may well be the reason for its critical success. Fifty years ago, critics were so intent on judging an artist's skill that they misjudged such unskilled but forceful painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh. For better or worse, a lot of modern critics now rate forcefulness first...
Puccini: II Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi (Cetra-Soria, 2 sides LP each). These two one-acters, with Suor Angelica, make up Puccini's Triptych, which had its world premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1918. Gianni Schicchi, which still survives at the Met, is a bright and appealing piece of foolishness. In this recording, it is a roaring fine vehicle for first-rate Baritone Giuseppe (Falstaff) Taddei. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is Puccini at his most melodramatic blood & thundering. These Radio Italiana performances give both operas their full due; so does the recording...