Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game, as Ortman, 37, is a man who makes orderly, symbolic art. "I grew up amid action painters," he explains, "and my reaction to all that is symmetry-order in a very strange world." Now teaching a course at New York University and co-director of the School of Visual Arts, he has a chance to preach what he practices. "People are no longer interested in what Mr. Green says to Mr. Red," says he of abstract expressionism, so he began making constructions that, at their onset, look like Playskool peg toys (see opposite page). Like Matisse, his favorite artist...
...University could create spaces for hundreds of cars by converting the Carpenter Visual Arts Center into a garage. No alteration of the Center would be necessary. On the ground level cars would enter and leave by the Prescott Street entrance, and the ramp would provide access to the second level...
JAMES KEARNS-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts shows his versatility in pieces sculpted in bronze, fiber glass and concrete, and in paintings done in oil on canvas and on Masonite. His cast females are pathetically pudgy, his painted figures equally grotesque. "I flatter people verbally, not pictorially," says Kearns. But a fine sense of balance and depth wraps them in redeeming grace. Through April...
...Sound, One Symbol. I.T.A. proponents believe that all this sabotages conventional ways of teaching reading. The "look-say" method tries to link the visual pattern of a word with its meaning, only to run up against confusing variations of form (all three letters of "AND" look different from those of "and," for example). Also difficult is trying to apply the phonic method, which teaches children to single out letters and their phonemic values so that they can read and spell analytically. In the 26-letter alphabet, one letter often represents different sounds in differing words-for example...
...easily one of the best background scores ever composed. It is consistently witty (often reminiscent of Prokofiev's whimsical compositions), and able to conjure up a whole spectrum of moods. The music can stand so well by itself, in fact, that one feels the movie was written as a visual accompaniment to it. At least, what happens on the screen does not seem to have much other reason for being...