Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Creative Spirit. So is Duchamp. In his "retirement" Duchamp summed up his early fatigue with "retinal" art. "I was interested in ideas," he recalled, "not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind." It is the mind that still reacts, both to Duchamp's career and to his immeasurable influence. His works now appear to be essences, concentrations of theory and expression that have nourished the creative spirit for six decades. His juggled compositions antedate John Cage by a generation. His readymades anticipate the objects of Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol...
Director Levinson, a former cartoonist and animator, gets off a few broadly effective visual gags (the president of the steelworkers union taking a bubble bath in his hard hat), but he has all the ironic sense of a divorce-court magistrate, and the sort of teary sentimentality that allows him to present scenes of federal troops sacking a hippie camp in slow motion while Judy Collins sings Amazing Grace on the sound track. Nevertheless, one admires the vigor, if not the style, of his attack...
...love teacher." Finally he grows discontent and makes his way back to the one wise person he has met, a man who poles a raft back and forth across a river. Siddhartha has learned, as it were, to flow with the current. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who has lent visual majesty to all of Ingmar Bergman's recent work, must have realized early the folly of taking all this didactic mysticism seriously. This, at least, would explain why every image is bathed in the dreamy light of a tour ad for Air India...
...synchromistic" school of painting; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. While studying art in Paris, Wright read about 19th century discoveries in optics and color and decided to eliminate from his paintings everything but chromatic rhythm and form. Comparing color to sound, Wright often selected visual harmonies by striking chords and intervals on a piano. His work influenced such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur B. Davies and Joseph Stella...
Although none of the visual ideas are new, some, like painting characters onto old movie footage, are still striking. Others are ostentatious. Michael, the Bakshi surrogate, is drawn with a cheap storybook realism while everyone else is grotesque. The hero looks like Snow White among the Seven Dwarfs, the kind of narcissism the movie not only indulges, but stresses. ∎ Jay Cocks...