Word: kline
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kevin Kline gives an outstanding performance as Paul, a simple man lured by Central Park West trappings and an L.A. life-style before he sees through the plastic of his own costume. Roxanne Hart's Susan develops beautifully from the first day on the beach in her tight pink bathing suit to her last afternoon with Paul...
...plot is Simon-simple. Paul (Kev in Kline) falls in love with Susan (Roxanne Hart). He is a disenchanted graduate of the Peace Corps and she is distancing herself from Denver, Colo...
Fortunately, Paul and Susan have friends who are fun to be with. Comic relief is generously provided by Susan's pal Janice (Robin Bartlett), prime guru bait who arrives in a sari, with a skull-washed boyfriend who is out of this world, Asian or otherwise. Kevin Kline's Paul sensitively conveys the perplexity of a neomodern man coping with a neomodern woman, and Director Alan Schneider's supple intelligence cloaks the nudity of the text...
Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline are among the other major abstract expressionists shown. The lineup of artists is quite good, reading like a veritable Who's Who of the period. The work which represents them in this show is, however, another story. Jackson Pollock is a case in point. The Fogg owns a very good example of Pollock's mature or "drip" work (1947-53), but it is not on exhibit here because it's now in Washington D.C.--on loan to the National Gallery...
...Franz Kline's "High Street" is nicely juxtaposed with a smaller oil-on-paper work of 1952. "High Street" which is an excellent example of Kline's work unfortunately spends most of the year in an upstairs Fogg office and is therefore not on view for the general public. The inclusion of the two pieces allows for comparison of the artist's work in two different media and in two different scales...