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...painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. Nothing is fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold skin and the darting, vivid pat terns of the fabric. No artist of Pearlstein's generation has so brave ly confronted the basic issues of realism-how to hold the utmost concreteness of three-dimensional volume within the strongest two-dimensional pattern. The vigorously modeled limbs and trunks of his subjects create a pictorial energy that...
...Vivid pictures like those accompanying your article "Vengeance in Victory" [Jan. 3] may win awards for photographers, but in me they evoke only shame. It pains me to witness, albeit vicariously, the degradation of man. Obviously the Bengalis are totally consumed by vengeance and the sick need to retaliate in kind, but I cannot understand how Western newsmen can hold their cameras so still while other men are being brutally murdered...
...metaphysical" period. But the tension has gone. One has seen the originals-except when the "originals" are recent products, for it is an open secret in the Italian art world that De Chirico has painted numerous works supposedly from 1916-17 over the past few decades. Perhaps the most vivid lesson to be drawn from the Cultural Center's retrospective is that in art, obsessiveness does not win back what defensiveness loses...
What is a myth? In Campbell's academic jargon, it is a dreamlike "symbol that evokes and directs psychological energy." A vivid story or legend, it is but one part of a larger fabric of myths that, taken together, form a mythology that expresses a culture's attitude toward life, death and the universe around it. The Greek myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man, thus symbolizes the race's aspirations, even when they conflict with the powers of nature. The almost contemporary Hebrew myth of the trials...
...held out for two days, barricaded inside the statue's base with timbers being used to build an immigration museum. While demonstrators elsewhere were arrested, the New York men were allowed to leave with impunity in compliance with a court order obtained by the Government. They created another vivid image when, from between the points of the statue's crown, they flew a large U.S. flag upside down, as a distress signal. Once the Statue of Liberty meant a new life for generations of immigrants; the protesters chose to convey a considerably more somber message. Yet the statue...