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...Kandinsky, the Russian-born dean of the non-objectives school, provide an interesting guide to his development from a Fauvism that already tended towards abstraction to his eventual creation of abstract works in the most cerebral and calculating of styles. Kandinsky's early work, swirling with pure color and vivid with strong brushwork, strikes me as his most successful. When he paints flat colors enclosed in rigid outlines floating against a monochromatic background, them my dissatisfaction with the picture equals his lack of attachment to its content...
...emotional situations of complexity. Though Chagall's technique some times seems a bit shaky, the pictures, Burning House, Birthday and The Soldier Drinks, all seem to derive from the artists's own experiences in Russia and Paris. Burning House, full of a peasant bulkiness, is especially gripping with its vivid coloring and engrossing catastrophe. Birthday, painted with glowing Iyricism, describes a some how convincing act of leviation, by which a husband floats over to kiss his wife...
...lacking in flesh. Opening its seventh season with so tough a challenge, the Phoenix Theater could not meet it in production. As the best way of sustaining interest, Director Stuart Vaughan makes use of the stylized and the histrionic. Now and then, the tricks are vivid, but the gaudy orchestration only stresses the hollowness of the music...
...Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion...
...Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion, when a thin, red line of 400 defended the foreign compounds at Peking from 25,000 screaming besiegers for 55 days...