In this vividly colored canvas — as well as in the neighboring oil stick on paper, «UNTITLED (LEONARDO DA VINCI)» from 1982 — words are used like brushstrokes; the frenetic, all - over quality suggests a drive toward a sort of disjunctive mapping, rather than the building of a classically unified composition, where seemingly unrelated marks suddenly coalesce in syncopated rhythms. (brooklynrail.org)
If a violin had been made in the first place by Antonio Stradivari himself and if skilled hands had played upon it the compositions of the masters, any cheap endeavor to make it hiccup with syncopated jazz would be resented. (religion-online.org)
In syncopated progressions of pictures and words, Magenheimer pushes against the bounds of narrative, charting circuitous storylines through vernacular associations that invite individual interpretations. (newmuseum.org)