Word: tessera
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...Seurat and Signac. Chuck Close became famous for his large-scale portraits, using a grid of abstract pixels to create the larger picture.Smuts’s monochromatic panels recall all this, and also consciously take a jab at the monochromatic paintings of the early minimalists. For Smuts, each tessera is important in its individuality, and its contrast to the whole.The time and care taken by the artists of each tile is evident. Yet, “I don’t entirely understand the appeal of the project,” admits Smuts. “Why would someone...
...preopening tour of the restaurants. At this late stage, Wynn is still seeing things that bother him. You get the impression that not a tile or a tessera has been laid, not a square inch of valance put in place, without the boss's scrutinizing it. We are in the branch of Le Cirque 2000, with its circus murals and its billowing masses of peachy silk coming off the ceiling. In the middle of it is a singularly incongruous Art Deco-revival light fixture, all sharp angles and etched glass. Wynn recoils. "What's this thing?" he demands, fixing...
This scene from a full-length play, The Private Life of the Master Race, is a tessera in a jeweled mosaic arranged from the poems, songs, plays, letters and aphorisms of one of the 20th century's most remarkable playwrights, the late Bertolt Brecht. Put together with artful concern by George Tabori, perceptively directed by Gene Frankel, and acted with selfless intensity by a cast of six, Brecht on Brecht is an arresting example of offbeat off-Broadway. Close to stage rear, a portrait of Brecht peers out at the audience, eyes wily and skeptical, lips sealed...