Word: painterly
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...statement the way a painting is a statement: it has been designed and it signifies. Vanessa Redgrave, not quite fresh from her role as one of the objects in Blow-Up, enters this perfectly bourgeois room and crosses to her trussed-up lover, Franco Nero, here a non-figurative painter. She turns on a burnishing wheel that begins to polish Nero's foot and Petri cuts to another action expressing a corollary anguish, a shot of her pulling his hair. It's only Nero's dream, though...
Since the film concerns itself exclusively with the painter-hero's interpretation of reality, it remains quite incapable of any kind of social analysis. By constructing a script around his subjectivity, it risks second-rate sensationalism at every turn. Nevertheless, its way of cramming things and events one after another without analysis has a certain value. It presents cultural object after cultural object to the audience...
...Many Harvard employees are objecting to the agreement, however. "I am positive the employees would turn down the paid parking program," John O. Carroll, a painter, said yesterday, "but the union never took a vote or consulted us before making this deal with Harvard...
Ryan and 15 other students were suspended from Harvard last December after they and about 50 other SDS demonstrators had forcibly held Dean May in his office to demand that the University immediately promote all "painters' helpers" to full painter status. At the time of the suspensions, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities attached another sanction to the punishment: the students could not appear anywhere on campus during their terms of absence without receiving permission beforehand, or they would face legal prosecution. CRR members argued that this additional rule-a long-standing statute for all students required to leave Harvard...
Jungian Psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Henderson decided there was gold in his files in the form of 83 drawings and doodles made 30 years ago by one of his patients, the late painter Jackson Pollock...