Word: pointillist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the septuagenarian Igor Stravinsky converted to twelve-tone composition under the sway of ''St. Anton.'' Among lesser composers, instant Webernism-compressed structures, jagged melodic leaps, spare, pointillist orchestration-became a sort of standard, freeze-dried product in the 1950s and '60s. Now that the vogue has subsided somewhat, Webern is in danger of having come and gone as an avant-garde influence without ever being absorbed into the standard repertory. A more definitive assessment is needed...
Steinberg can fill a sheet with figures, each of them drawn in a different style?cubist, pointillist, child art, hatched shading, mock sculptural, hairy scribble, Leger boilerplate, art deco?and display a wide, ironic complicity with art history while making no final commitment to a "way" of drawing. The drawing works because he so obviously possesses each style. It is imitation without flattery. As a dandy, Steinberg owns all the hats in his wardrobe. A still life like Belgian Air Mail 1971, is not a "cubist-type" drawing, a thing done in homage to Braque and Picasso. It is rather...
Blue Triangle. There was a religious, or at least numinous basis to nearly all of Kupka's imagery; even a strict geometrical abstraction like Untitled, 1931, retains in its big blue triangle a flicker of pointillist light that had been appearing in his work since he began studying the stained glass of Chartres...
...tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft prints, like Dior's pointillist patterns, blurring from color to color to color...
...Pointillist Fragments. Such conducting underlines another of Boulez's crucial attitudes on Debussy: "Far from being a historical dead end, his music contains the sources of a great deal of 20th century music." To the ears of his ; contemporaries, Debussy's novelty lay in his exotic harmonies, in his use of the whole-tone scale, and in his impressionistic handling of instrumental color. Actually, Debussy shattered the concept of melody into pointillist fragments, emphasizing such qualities as rhythm and timbre. In each of his mature compositions he invented the form as he went along, thereby making it inseparable...