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...with complex visual surfaces. To view one of his works a second time, it seems, wouldn't lead you more deeply into the piece, only let you take in more of its shell. Simply-structured choreography underlies Nikolais's dazzling surfaces. In Sanctum the eye is stunned by a painter's palette of light flickering over living massed forms--dancers bound in giant loops of fabric. Here Nikolais uses group unison, one of the most basic patterns in choreography. He matches simple movement phrases with blocks of time. Each dancer executes a phrase at the moment he senses is right...
Right up to his death at the age of 69 in 1972, Cornell was the most reclusive, subtle and fugitive of American artists. "So long as he lives and works," the painter Robert Motherwell wrote of him in 1953, "Europe cannot snub our native art." But when the imperial hegemony of American taste clamped down in the 1960s, Cornell was virtually left out. His delicate boxes, filled with tableaux made of everything from bark to butterfly wings, seemed too small and in fact too "European" to fit the current standards for major...
...brilliant results. Kolzak's adaptation enables Epstein to seize a once shallow caricature of a clergyman and transform it into a complex, brooding performance. Karen Ross is a good Mrs. Alving, adding a layer of sophisticated and casual confidence to Ibsen's troubled widow. Stephen Kolzak as the tortured painter Oswald gives an excellent performance; his harrowing breakdown is the one scene where emotion transcends Ibsen's carefully orchestrated social commentaries. Sidney Atwood as Engstrand and Helena Snow as the ambitious Regina handle modernization less effectively by dipping into stereotype. Atwood's carpenter is too much the fast-talking hustler...
There are painters who carry their childhood experience all their lives. It forms the genetic code, the inescapable structure, of their work. Constable was one. He was born in Suffolk, where his father owned water mills on the River Stour. He lived a life of blameless bourgeois obscurity, alternating between London and the Suffolk countryside with his wife Maria Bicknell, who bore him seven children. At 45, he wrote to a friend: "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams ... willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, & brickwork. I love such things ... I should paint my own places best-Painting...
...remarkable event. It consists of 147 paintings, drawings and pastels, catalogued with bracing intelligence by Yale Art Historian Robert Herbert, who gives us one of the best readings of a 19th century artist to appear in a decade. What Herbert achieves is the restoration of a great lost painter whose images are central to any understanding of radical culture in France...