Color glowed through the show, grass green or ocean blue, shown in a tranquil garden.
For anger, the hood lighting color glows red while the eyebrow lights up and the headlights, antenna and height are in standard position.
Malevich's "Morning in the Village After Snowstorm" (1912), Chagall's "Flying Carriage" (1913) and Liubov Popova's "Birsk" (1916) all put very different spins on similar ingredients: toned-down Cubist fracturing, jewel-like color, glowing light and folkloric themes.
In his neatly made abstractions nothing stays fixed: lines appear to vibrate, waver, rotate and undulate; color glows and throbs as if electrically generated; hovering, gridded squares seem to fade in and out of visibility.
Mr. Alaïa's costumes were something of an extension of his recent collection, dresses created in his sculptured two-layer knits, with color glowing through a top layer of mesh like a stained-glass window; or eyelet-knit lace panels and zigzag stitching.
Still unresolved are questions like whether to keep the entrance staircase wood dark or to restore its original honey-color glow.
In both cases colors glow and modulate, lighten and darken through strategic placement in the vicinity of other colors.
Yet the work is more than an onslaught of effects: tendrils of melody curl around the ear, harmonic colors glow eerily bright, rhythms have a folkish, danceable thrust.
On opening night, he refused to luxuriate in Strauss's orchestration, even as he made its colors glow, and he never drowned out the voices.
