Photography by Brett Weston at the Currier Museum of Art Nov 8, 2009
None of Robert Mapplethorpe s flower studies from half a century later can outdo it in voluptuary classicism. Not that contrast was just something Weston contrived in a studio. (Boston Globe)
The world is Australia's stage Nov 7, 2009
(I remember the way the quietness of her direction released the hysteria of Edward Albee's The Goat, just as I recall the unfussed classicism with which she did Arthur Miller's All My Sons with John Stanton. . (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Entertainment Corner: Cadott youths 'Bumping off the Boss' - again Oct 3, 2009
Spohr s musical style can be described as Romantic Classicism, with many dramatic and singable melodic lines. This style may well have influenced such later composers as Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Mattatuck Museum to Celebrate Mora Sep 18, 2009
It is the artist's progression-his transition from classicism to impressionism to realism, mirroring the evolution of the art world-and his enduring connection to his Hispanic roots that warrants continued patronage. The Mora family immigrated to America when he was 6 years old in 1880, bouncing between New Jersey and Boston and finally settling in the former. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
New Acropolis Museum looks forward, honors past Aug 10, 2009
Museumgoers can step closer to these nuggets of classicism than their original position, elevated on the building's frieze and pediments, would ever have permitted. With its survey (on a lower floor) of archaic sculptures excavated on the Acropolis, and its dramatic mirroring of the Parthenon, the New Acropolis Museum makes a standing argument for repatriation of the so-called Elgin Marbles, the largest and finest remnants of Parthenon sculpture, prize treasures of the British Museum since the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Merce Cunningham, at 90; was transformative force in 20th century dance Jul 28, 2009
There he was widely celebrated as the creator of a new classicism, as Diaghilev s successor, as one of the most remarkable theater artists of his day. And it was in Europe that he was most acclaimed right through to this decade, with sold-out seasons in Paris at the Theatre de la Ville or the Opera. (Boston Globe)
Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? May 2, 2009
On his first, eponymous album, Dylan sang mostly other people's songs--except for one talking blues and the haunting "Song to Woody," which was an exercise in folk classicism. He wrote new lyrics to the tune of Guthrie's "1913 Massacre," just as Guthrie had applied his lyrics to the ancient ballads he'd learned from his mother. (Time.com)
* Plus ça change ... Apr 29, 2009
Taken together the themes suggest aesthetic continuity between French classicism and European modernism as informed by artistic concerns that date back to antiquity ... People living in another cultural area like Asia are not familiar with Occidental culture and I think that the reference to Poussin is a key element to introduce a wider spectrum in the culture, to say, Most of the questions asked by the modern painters could be rooted in a very old tradition and this tradition of course is the... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Anita Lewis: Elements Apr 8, 2009
Her style offers the necessary balance to the chaos, a haven of serenity and thought, simplistic modernism for simplistic modern environments, or contrasting eclectic classicism. Translations Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts. (AbsoluteArts.com)
All He Surveyed Mar 23, 2009
Palladio had a gift for composition, for combining solids and voids, curves and straight lines, depth and flatness, in nearly perfect equilibrium, and he was among the first to think of classicism as a vocabulary that could transform mundane structures into something special. After this important commission, local nobles lined up to have him design their country villas and city palazzi. (New Yorker)
Vermont painter George Tooker made waves in the art world Mar 1, 2009
"Gradually Tooker's themes became less explicitly social and more frankly spiritual. His light, in paintings like "Woman with Oranges" (1977), and "Embrace of Peace II" (1988), came to be suffused with warm oranges and yellows that seem not just to reflect light but to generate it from within.Certainly, there is something anachronistic about Tooker's work. There always was. To be painting in egg tempera in the painstaking manner of Piero della Francesca just as Pollock was treating the canvas as... (Boston Globe)
Art.view: Spot colour Feb 22, 2009
It derived from the Paris Exposition of 1925 and became a catch-all for a new visual language that drew on a wide range of sources Cubism, the Ballets Russes, the Bauhaus, folk art, classicism and the rectilinear design of Art Nouveau. Reinterpreting these influences, artists and designers throughout Europe strove for an aggressively modern style that turned its back on the 19th century and the great war that had effectively brought it to an end. (The Economist)
Read Article » Feb 20, 2009
When it was completed, the watered-down classicism of its travertine buildings seemed to capture all the anxieties of the cold war period, its confused stylistic references camouflaging a kind of emptiness. The building that houses Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard School, the last of the center's structures to be completed, had a particularly brutal relationship to the street. (International Herald Tribune)
