You start and
end the piece referencing «bookends», but you also talked about beads on a string.
Not exact matches
While subtlety wasn't expected, the never
ending mugging at the camera, poorly scripted
references to varied cultural phenomenon of that time (photography, burking, mob protection), and stream of celebrity cameos (Bill Bailey, Ronnie Corbett) gives the impression that Landis was more concerned in operating the cinematic equivalent of a «shock and awe» campaign, rather than making a solid
piece of genre entertainment.
The
pieces look great in the central gallery, starting at the southern
end with violet and blue, seeing their way through to bronze and yellow hues and
ending toward the north with green and the sky blue
reference to Monet in Untitled (Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol, Facing Left, French Mask) 2013.
While in the past Rafferty used the subject of mid to late 20th century comedy as an immediate
reference point, her new
pieces employ images of comedians and entertainers in a rather more open -
ended way.
Cells on Slide Plates (2014), mixed - media Cristina's delicate
piece references pointillism, a technique most practiced at the
end of the 19th century, where colored dots, rather than long strokes, created an image.
It also looks at Johns's play with language and his elaborate Duchamp - inspired puns between word and image (Wall
Piece, 1968; Bread, 1969; The Critic Smiles, 1969); and explores the way Johns begins introducing more psychological, personal
references to his canvases (Land's
End; 1963; Periscope [Hart Crane], 1963; Souvenir 1964).
The literality of the painting's title clashes with the visual,
referencing its saccharine effect, while in the
end this
piece offers nothing but an abstract representation.
I liked a recent Huffington Post
piece by the British environmental consultant Tony Juniper, but don't agree that Paris marks the «
end of the beginning» (a
reference to a cautionary statement by Winston Churchill after an early Allied victory in World War II).