Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since words carry little meaning here, they are most useful simply as noises with which each character attracts attention, sounds he can shape to fit his personality. Without the support of a storyline, the play relies on the actual acting, the visual impression and the music. All are excellent. The music, composed and performed by Michael Dolan, is always interesting and spirited, though unobtrusive, and the cast responds vitally to Evangeline Morphos's direction...
...contextual statement in the belief that the Stein context defines itself; she has not emphasized the intellectual milieu of the Steins by clarifying their ideas about these works, but instead has arranged the show primarily by chronology, evoking a historical document with an assumption of intellectual history in the visual and literary arts of the Stein era. The catalogue clarifies some of the literary trends and ideas, but the visual thinking is limited. Still, there are a few excellent examples of visual clarification...
What did the Steins see? What did these visual artists see? Why was this the avant-garde? We get only hints of the answers...
Michael and Sarah Stein are more clearly defined by the catalogue, but their villa at Granches which they commissioned from Le Corbusier, then a little known architect, is a visual evolution from the simple exterior-a cubical form-to three-dimensional puzzle parts like winding staircases and long ribbon windows...
Chronological sorting allows the creative and visually-trained eye to make connections between paintings and artists, paintings and the Steins, paintings and visual development, but to share the excitement of the Steins' creative vision we must see what they saw in the works, not just look at the works themselves. What we can only share in this show is the enthusiasm of the Paris scene, with Matisse's bright colors and sensual forms and Picasso's unlimited perceptions; we can't help but turn the corners on the Left Bank with the Steins as we go through the Luxembourg Gardens...