Far from being dispassionate abstractions, Mr. Lüpertz's paintings are haunted by more or less
explicit allusions.
While making
no explicit allusions to technology, Hollowell's intense colors and clearly articulated surfaces extend the legacy of Bauhaus teacher Joseph Albers and his students, who lent their works an engineered character — imagine the chromatic orchestration of Richard Anuskiewicz fused to the smoothly rendered contours of William Bailey's vessels.
Like Jennifer Bartlett (MATRIX 73), who spent a soggy winter in the South of France, obsessively drawing and redrawing a garden scene in a multitude of modern art styles, Steir systematically explored line and color while making
explicit allusions to admired artists in her intaglio prints, the Drawing Lesson series (1978).
In addition to its regressive politics,
the explicit allusions to director Josef von Sternberg's iconic 1930 «The Blue Angel,» starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings, make this retread look even more unimaginative.
It may also be remarked that Mark's literary purpose would rule out the inclusion of too
explicit an allusion to the pre-existence.
Here is
an explicit allusion to a «heavenly process» as the real foundation and background of the mythical narrative.
In «A-E-I-O-U and Sometimes Y» (2009), the exhibition's most
explicit allusion to Warhol, Thomas has assembled a panel of forty small close - ups of women's faces.
Not exact matches
It has rarely been remarked that the very title of Whitehead's major work contains a more or less
explicit reference to that of F. H. Bradley's: Bradley's Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (1893) becomes Whitehead's Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929).1 Such an obvious and prominently placed
allusion is perhaps already enough...
It ends with a proclamation of the risen and exalted Jesus; it begins with an
allusion, only slightly less
explicit, to the pre-existent Christ.
There is no
explicit reference to the virgin birth, or even any clear
allusion to it.
It has rarely been remarked that the very title of Whitehead's major work contains a more or less
explicit reference to that of F. H. Bradley's: Bradley's Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (1893) becomes Whitehead's Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929).1 Such an obvious and prominently placed
allusion is perhaps already enough to suggest that in some important sense Whitehead's thought can be seen as a critical reworking of Bradley's.
The similarities Twombly saw and that this exhibition makes
explicit include what Lewison lists as: «An interest in
allusion and metaphor, a preoccupation with mortality, a liking for atmospheric effects and an engagement with the tradition of the sublime.»
America seems to be a goal - oriented society that prefers
explicit meanings, candor, and «plain speech» to ambiguity and
allusion.