Word: soto
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ruthlessly plagiarized by commerce. As soon as her tightly organized, black-and-white abstractions began to wrench and prick the eyes of an international public in the mid-'60s, a horde of fabric designers and window dressers moved in. Riley, along with other painters like Vasarely and Soto, became synonymous with Op art; and Op itself became, in the hands of its exploiters, a chic gimmick that could market anything from underwear to wallpaper. By the summer of 1965, it seemed that every boutique in the West had its own coarse versions of Bridget Riley's optical dazzle...
...Turco, wearing long hair and a red armband, lost a one-fall match to clean-cut Manuel Soto, delighting the crowd. Tony Marino downed the Black Demon with little trouble, but failed to unmask him, leaving the fans to wonder if he really is Frank Bellotti...
...Seltzer have slipped-but the Volkswagen experience demonstrates that this is almost inevitable. The most enjoyable-and most effective-of the Volkswagen minidramas is the one about the 1949 auto show, where crowds ignored the lonely Volkswagen and clustered around the glamorous "cars of the future"-Studebaker, Hudson, De-Soto. The production pays such meticulous attention to period styles -baggy trousers, Andrews Sisters types swinging and harmonizing-that at first glance the viewer thinks he is seeing 21-year-old footage...
...crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes and a sleekly sophisticated pas de deux executed by a pair of Petit's dancers. Finally, following...
...with facets that only become visible from different angles, the mural totally encompasses the center's hexagonal-shaped auditorium in a changing panorama of brilliant colors and forms. "I couldn't say a word for two hours after I saw it," says Paris Op Artist Jesus Rafael Soto. Not all visitors are so admiring...