"There's a spareness of gestures in the works that mirrors the spareness of language in his plays — only the essentials," said Amy Cappellazzo, executive vice president and chairwoman of the fine art division at Sotheby's.
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Tesla has taken interior spareness to a whole new, shocking level.
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Performed live by three musicians, it is unrelenting in its spareness.
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Tired of contemporary pop's mild spareness, craving music packed tight with crunch?
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The stripped-down script was mirrored by the spareness of the set.
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In its very spareness Women and Power gains some wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am appeal.
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Despite the spareness of the language, the mere suggestion of the scene is disturbing enough.
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But then the spareness vanishes, replaced by an apparatus that conspires against both actor and play.
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THE SENSE OF nuanced antiquity he has cultivated exists in radical counterpoint to the apartment's spareness.
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The image, striking in its spareness, in its lack of proportion, is one of small, incomplete pieces.
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A benefit of Vaughn's assured spareness is that it suffuses small elements and minuscule details with hefty meanings.
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Balancing any spareness, though, are the spicy intensity of some dishes and the stripped-down purity of others.
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The audience allowed the piece's concluding return toward spareness to ring out fully before charging in with enthusiastic applause.
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To push harsh noises in your face as Megan does while retaining spareness creates the impression of intense discipline.
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Yet the spareness also creates a stillness that I like to imagine only exists on a place like the moon.
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And I don't know that he does, and the spareness of his plan adds to my suspicion that he doesn't.
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The spareness of the writing gives the story its power and eerie credibility: There are no great, startling, gotcha scares.
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Although the movement (three male-female couples) has the music's overall spareness, Mr. Van Manen's choreographic musicality is generally bizarre.
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The result is an idiom of great spareness and simplicity: … But I am sure that he is not yet dead.
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Rock's prose calls to mind Kazuo Ishiguro, not just for its spareness but also for its mix of wonder and creepiness.
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Slinky drums and minimalist keyboard chords merge to create, kinetic motion from spareness, as is becoming necessary in pop these days.
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The occasional spareness of their playing and the stillness that sometimes surrounds their remarks suggest a region distinct from ordinary existence.
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Behold now a sweeping spareness, adorned by sporadically deployed strings, flutes, swelling horns, tinkly organ; often she and her piano stand alone.
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It pulls from postwar Scandinavian furniture, '80s postmodernism, the spareness of Japanese design and various art-world references, like Bauhaus and neoplasticism.
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Critics praised its deliberate, economical spareness; its light, almost pointillist aspect; its sense of wit and play; and its almost palpable emotional clarity.
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Japan also inspired some of his favorite motifs: spareness and balance, the absence of the unnecessary, the imperfect grid of the shoji screen.
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Still, while this worthy film sidesteps clichés — there are no horrid flashbacks or emotional speeches — its spareness occasionally feels planned rather than spontaneous.
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In its spareness, its unwillingness to clarify or expand, its ambiguous evocation of the satanic, the book itself seems buried in the ground.
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Coded as street rap, which means trap, Simi represents the gradual shift of trap conventions toward supposedly more classicist virtues: spareness, unflappability, exactitude.
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Their 1977 debut, the eponymous Talking Heads: 77, is the dinkiest of the classic punk debuts, fusing punk's economical spareness with strained mock cheer.
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"It reminded me of Arthur," said Mr. Houghton, 57, whose whittled figure, casually but tidily dressed, seemed to match the spareness of his environment.
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Tesla has taken interior spareness to a whole new, shocking level However, if we turn our attention to the interior, the Bolt easily wins out.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Tired of contemporary pop's mild spareness, craving music packed tight with crunch, I went looking for the noisiest albums I could find.
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This music seems light and buoyant only until its richness overwhelms you, despite its manufactured electronic surface, which implies a tight spareness where Purpose is lush and lyrical.
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The spareness and earnestness of startup minimalism truly found its match in the ubiquitous decor style that the writer Kyle Chayka coined "AirSpace," a reference to travel startup Airbnb.
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He's definitely brought some of the hip-hop production aspects to the album in terms of the size of some of the drum loops, and the spareness of some of the songs.
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No other painting in the show approaches the formal austerity of "From the Black Space II," although a similar spareness is evident in the two colored pencil drawings, both untitled pictures of demonic dogs.
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Musical strategies that with other bands might indicate attempts to break the mold have long since become integrated into said formula; Spoon's mild spareness accommodates any range of sly sound effects and compositional experiments.
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Partially it's the deceptive simplicity of the minimalist style shared by many of the contributing artists, in which an initial impression of plainness, spareness, and repetition gives way to weirder textural treats that catch the ear by surprise.
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The rooms have a sweet, Scandi spareness, modern bathrooms, the odd exposed beam and wooden balconies to bask in the alpine landscape and sun — which, according to the owners Sandrine and Xavier Lesharny, shines 300 days a year.
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There are plenty of musicals that welcome every bell and whistle that a director can throw at them — shows that, in the spareness of a concert performance, set spectators to dreaming about how gorgeous a full production might be.
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In 23, Tom Wolfe, whose own taste in interiors ran to damask and lacquer, published " From Bauhaus to Our House ," a polemical defense of "coziness & color" and an indictment of the "whiteness & lightness & leanness & cleanness & bareness & spareness" of austere modern design.
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Their earnest, feelgood melodies and sharp beats fit a spareness that by now evokes universality of method rather than any particular era; except insofar as teenpop's abstract ideal means '80s by definition (which it shouldn't), they've discarded the retro tag altogether.
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Although some of the style is warmed-over Hemingway ("You must kill what you love best, if your love for it is crooked and unhealthy"), most of it has the unflinching spareness Fisher's admirers rely on, along with the essential eruptions of sensuality.
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What so puzzles and enchants is that this is theoretically conventional rock band music — assembled with spareness, using the minimal ingredients of guitar, drums, and so on, played at mostly brisk tempos — that, thanks to Yanya's ear for where to incorporate empty space, plays like immersive soundscape.
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Ditto when recited over the twangy riffs, industrial crackles, ominous guitars, skewed piano echoes, percussive bells and looped clicks, obsessive basslines and random squeaks, jittery drum klatches and comic dissonances that drive the record, courtesy of producer Paul White, unified less by any coherent sonic signature than by a muscular spareness of method that elevates Brown's music from shtick to vision.
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But this spareness is as nothing compared with the artistic exiguity of the proceedings.
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The coldness and spareness of the arrangements, the dark and hard to understand lyrics, often vague, made this album hardly accessible for the public, who just discovered Bashung. Some critics described the album as an attempt at commercial suicide, and it did not sell well.
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Minimalism, example Minimalist photography is a form of photography that is distinguished by extreme, austere simplicity.Philippines, Digital Photography, 2010, ‘TECHNIQUE Minimalist Magic’, Minimalist Magic, 20 Oct. 2010, pp. 062–067. It emphasizes spareness and focuses solely on the smallest number of objects in the composition process.
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Turn the page to The Sirens of Titan (1959), however, and it's > all there, all at once. Kurt Vonnegut has become Kurt Vonnegut. The > spareness hits you first. The first page contains fourteen paragraphs, none > of them longer than two sentences, some of them as short as five words.
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This theory is a mathematical formalization of Occam's razor.Induction: From Kolmogorov and Solomonoff to De Finetti and Back to Kolmogorov JJ McCall – Metroeconomica, 2004 – Wiley Online Library. Another technical approach to Occam's razor is ontological parsimony. Parsimony means spareness and is also referred to as the Rule of Simplicity.
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He told his students that it should be possible to produce an orchestration without resorting to glockenspiels, celestas, xylophones, bells or electrical instruments.Duchen, p. 132 Debussy admired the spareness of Fauré's orchestration, finding in it the transparency he strove for in his own 1913 ballet Jeux; Poulenc, by contrast, described Fauré's orchestration as "a leaden overcoat ... instrumental mud".Nectoux (1991), p.
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In one paper, he worked with George Johnstone Stoney on the perturbations of the Leonid meteors, predicting and explaining the spareness of the 1899 shower. He became superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office from 1891 until his retirement in 1910. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1896. He collaborated with his U.S. counterpart Simon Newcomb in establishing an international standard for astronomical constants.
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Lorine Faith Niedecker (English: pronounced Needecker) (May 12, 1903 – December 31, 1970) was an American poet. Niedecker's poetry is known for its spareness, its focus on the natural landscapes of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (particularly waterscapes), its philosophical materialism, its mise- en-page experimentation, and its surrealism. She is regarded as a major figure in the history of American regional poetry, the Objectivist poetic movement, and the mid-20th-century American poetic avant-garde.
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It is not known, however, if this spareness was adopted from the influence of the local Protestant traditions or simply due to a lack of funds for such decorative touches. The building follows local custom in being oriented perpendicular to the road. This is different from Orthodox tradition, in which the ark is always placed at the rear of the building and toward Jerusalem. At Agudas Achim, the ark is located on the opposite side of the building.
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In 1972 Tang was commissioned by the Shanghai health service to paint a work about acupuncture's usefulness as an anesthetic in surgery. Art officials were dissatisfied with the painting submitted by a health worker the preceding year, and waived guidelines to allow Tang to paint in the evenings, after he completed his daily farm work. The spareness of Maoist slogans in the result, Acupuncture Anesthesia (针刺麻醉), was considered very daring by the art world of the time.Andrews, J.F. (1994).
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Dehd's sound is characterized by reverb-heavy guitar, blunt drumming, and the use of idiosyncratic vocals, which include drawls, call-and response, yelping, and frequent use of counter-melody. Commentators have compared the resulting spareness of the sound to the genre of post-punk, but additional comparisons can be made to wall of sound, surf rock and dream pop. Jason Balla has cited Cocteau Twins, Broadcast, and Cate Le Bon as influences, while Emily Kempf has referenced the works of James Brown, Roy Orbison, and Dolly Parton as having shaped their musical approach.
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After the British premiere, Sadie described the piece as "a fascinating product of the contact between two musical minds". In The Guardian Edward Greenfield said that the work broke new ground in the spareness of the harmony: "The familiar Waltonian lines of melody are there, but at the opening and in the first two improvisations it is as though Walton was deliberately imitating Britten in preferring bare unisons to his usual rich texture. Only in the third of the five improvisations does Walton start piling on his characteristic added notes."Greenfield, Edward.
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"Babydoll" was described as "a vocally driven piece", with strong jazz harmony provided by Cory Rooney. Other songs that incorporated R&B; influence into ballads were "Whenever You Call" and "Close My Eyes", which were personally important to Carey due to their lyrical content. While both were similar ballads to Carey's previous work, Nickson said: > While up to the standard of anything Mariah had ever done before, [they] > suffered in comparison. But even here you could hear the new Mariah in the > spareness of the arrangements and the way it was her voice, rather than any > instrument, that controlled the song.
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It was at the urging of Pedro Salinas that Cernuda began to read classical Spanish poets such as Garcilaso, Luis de León, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Quevedo and Calderón de la Barca. He also urged him to learn French and to read modern French literature, in particular André Gide and the poetry of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud. Cernuda also became acquainted with the poetry of Pierre Reverdy and counts him as a major influence over the poems in his first collection, Perfil del aire, for his qualities of spareness, purity and reticence. No contemporary critic recognised this influence.
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John Wesley is a pop artist. The spareness of his technique often seems more akin to the school known as Minimalism, however, and indeed his closest personal associations were with artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, the latter of whom wrote a laudatory essay on Wesley's early work and later set aside a space for him at his complex in Marfa, Texas. Wesley himself considers his work to be aligned with Surrealism, and many of his paintings since the 1960s have taken this dimension yet further, while retaining an extremely limited range of colors and a sign-like flatness.
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Parts of this recension can be dated from linguistic evidence to the 8th century, and some of the verse passages may be even older. The second recension is found in the 12th- century manuscript known as the Book of Leinster. This appears to have been a syncretic exercise by a scribe who brought together the Lebor na hUidre materials and unknown sources for the Yellow Book of Lecan materials to create a coherent version of the epic. While the result is a satisfactory narrative whole, the language has been modernised into a much more florid style, with all of the spareness of expression of the earlier recension lost in the process.
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Today, Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets, although her writing career began during the 1960s with a series of paperback original novels she published under the pseudonym Della Field. Howe has continued to publish novels throughout her career, including Lives of the Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005). She has also continued to publish in the essay form. Some of her essays have been collected, including The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003) Poet Michael Palmer: > Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her > lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit.
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The play makes use of several "interludes," which would have been spare entertainments between the acts (but which are integrated into the performance in this case), again emphasising the smallness and spareness of the initial staging (as interludes would have allowed for technicians to arrange the lights and scenery and to put actors in place). Revivals of the play are largely undocumented, but some are attested. Hattaway suggests that it was performed in the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane in 1635, at court the next year, and then after the Restoration at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1662 and again in 1665 and 1667 (Hattaway xxix). The play "has proved popular with amateur and university groups," according to Hattaway, but not with professional troupes.
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13-55 and John Loughery, "Blending the Classical and the Modern: The Art of Elsie Driggs," Woman's Art Journal (Winter 1987), pp. 22-26. Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery. (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)Loughery, p. 22. In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."michenermuseum.
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This is written with an economy and spareness intended to capture the simplicity the poet sees in Lucy. Lucy's femininity is described in the verse in girlish terms, a fact that has drawn criticism from some critics that see a female icon, in the words of John Woolford "represented in Lucy by condemning her to death while denying her the actual or symbolic fulfillment of maternity". To evoke the "loveliness of body and spirit", a pair of complementary but opposite images are employed in the second stanza: a solitary violet, unseen and hidden, and Venus, emblem of love, and the first star of evening, public and visible to all. Wondering which Lucy most resembled--the violet or the star--the critic Cleanth Brooks concluded that although Wordsworth likely viewed her as "the single star, completely dominating [his] world, not arrogantly like the sun, but sweetly and modestly".
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Retrieved March 10, 2019. Wolfe-Suarez's shows “Theory of a Family” (Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2010) and "Both Are True" (Southern Exposure, Los Angeles, 2011) made similar use of disparate objects, sound and scent in tenuous relationship to body, space and memory. Artist-critic Walter Robinson described the former show as "private, mysterious, intimate";Robinson, Walter. "San Francisco Sketchy," artnet, March 30, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2019. other reviewers compared her work's combination of spareness with symbolic, psychological, and narrative qualities to the work of Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo and Lee Ufan. Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, Breath of Work, handmade dye from ocean plants, shells, and salt-water on silk, 10" x 14", 2018. In the installation "A Thing Repeated Is Not Always All The Same" (Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, 2015), Wolfe-Suarez combined basic materials—light, shadow, scent, wood, rocks, yarn, mirrors, walls—and repeated imagery in distinct works designed as an interrelated composition.
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Assessing the cast's performances, he judged that "Kate O'Flynn brings an astonishingly raw vulnerability to the stage as Amy […] Sorcha Cusack plays the grandmother with a robust humanity that warms this punishing play; Russell Tovey has a terrifying touch of the psycho about him as the squaddie, while Gerard Horton as his father shows how man hands on misery to man". Spencer concluded his review by writing, "With a bleakly atmospheric rural design by Patrick Burnier that is so real you can actually smell it and a tense, gutsy production by Lyndsey Turner, this proves a shattering full-length debut by 26-year-old Molly Davies". Reviewing the play for The Guardian, Michael Billington gave it 3 stars out of five, saying that "while Molly Davies's writing shows real flair in its bony, Bond-like spareness and unnerving hints of violence, her play remains trapped inside the fashionable 70-minute format". He found that "Davies's strength is her feel for character and place" but also that "the characters lapse into self pity [….]".
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