Word: staccato
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Back in the '50s, it seemed as if everybody from clerks and college boys to teachers and truckers was off traipsing through the deserts of the Southwest and the forests of the northern Midwest, hoping to hear the staccato clicking of a brand-new Geiger counter. Homeowners all across America daydreamed of discovering uranium in their backyards and living on Easy Street forever. In New Jersey's Jefferson Township, a small (pop. 16,000) community nestled in green hills about an hour's drive from Manhattan, that old dream is a present reality. The rock beneath...
...what Miró's latter-day disciples have most tried to imitate. But Miró could not care less. He still feels himself as an explorer. A series of canvases that he produced in 1961 are as empty as any minimalist could wish. In Blue II, a staccato of emphatic black shapes ends in an exclamation point of red, all set against an azure expanse. Says Miró: "Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...