Word: pointillist
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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Christian Wolff's music is not easily accessible either. It is a decidedly esoteric product of the John Cage cult, although probably better than anything Cage has done. Mr. Wolff played four pieces for piano and one for prepared piano. The technique is pointillist; tones are widely dispersed over the keyboard range, and in their succession they seldom suggest melody in the traditional sense of the term--single tones and sonorities assume a significance in themselves, and the phrase or line is replaced by the aggregate of points. Whether the feeling of oppression from lack of variety which comes after...
This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
...gift for the theatricality of nothing happening, for small sudden changes of key, for the humor of despair. For all its vernacular and even outhouse touches, his is an artificial and sophisticated style, a succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with the usual stage clothing, but hardly to get closer to nakedness, for nakedness implies flesh...
Three of the works in this exhibition depart from the Neo-Plastic tendency for a foray into Neo-Impressionism. A series of sunsets are in the pointillist style. The illusion of light and warmth produced by the use of light and color is spoiled by a clinical and sterile application of paint...