Encountered previously in a memorable Miller Theater event, the seductive work was still more alluring on renewed acquaintance.
"Also, I made this video at the time when the gallery I was with — well, they would never tell me they wanted me to sell out, but they would say something like, 'Maybe you should try to do more seductive work.' So this piece is kind of protesting against all that," he said.
It is such an innovative, seductive work that, in some ways, Air has served its purpose as a band by creating the masterpiece that, along with Daft Punk, turned the international pop community's gaze on the French electronic-dance music scene.
A vivid account of the Milhaud work, a jazzy precursor to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," benefited from Ed Matthew's seductive saxophone work and the rhythmic authority of Gregory Landes and the timpanist John Ferrari.
It is in fact this sense of calm, in league with Mazzucchelli's seductive color work, that subtly draws readers into the story's mystery-laden core.
Roger Deakins's seductive camera work and Rick Heinrich's production design almost succeed in tying the movie together; both are shown off to particular advantage in lavish dream sequences that look like Busby Berkeley on Ecstasy.
Their duet in Act II, one of those shamelessly seductive Straussian moments, works its magic as it should.
In February, Tate Britain promises to present the "sensation of the spring" when it brings together 60 of Van Dyck's most seductive and sumptuous works, mostly from the 1630s, alongside another 70 pieces by other artists that bring his development, and his legacy, into context.
