I've only seen "Hugo" once, and from far back (the screening was really crowded and I was the happy beneficiary of fellow critic Glenn Kenny's last reserved seat in a most festive row), so I'm sure that its visual splendors still hold secrets awaiting an up-close look.
The sun sinks in flames on the horizon, tides ripple, oceans batter rocks, but this time the natural splendors return to an inane, undeveloped situation.
Solemnly, even sacramentally, we divided it and took twenty-five micrograms each — not knowing what splendors or horrors awaited us — but, sadly, it had absolutely no effect on either of us.
This must be what the official after-school game is like — gifted children dreaming up splendors, not middle-trackers squirming beneath a nutso's moods.
It can no longer be wielded to chasten people who enjoy the elaborately skilled, archaically styled, formulaic splendors of the old academy, with its devout ancestor worship and deluxe eroticism.
To your left, in the repurposed spaces, is a tremendously invigorated representation of Northern European art, from van Eyck to the eighteenth-century English and climaxing in sky-lighted splendors of Rembrandt and Hals.
But he also perceived that tribal fetish worship, the past and its splendors, the Orient and its mysteries, the art world and its sacrileges, the underground, the flea market, the souk, the steppes, and the gay demimonde were all ripe for creative plunder.
Then two navigable underground parking garages, back to back, spanning Thirty-fifth to Thirty-seventh Streets — oh, the splendors of the exit ramp, with its Orphic rise toward the light!
Pierre and Manon traverse atmospherically workaday Parisian streets that sing neither with cultural splendors nor with social conflict, but solely with an ineffably emblematic mood of Parisianism, of life in a capital that hums with the power of its history and tradition.
Since decoration is art that is meant not to be looked at directly but to be taken in peripherally, Woodman's work may seem overqualified, in its peremptory splendors.
And when Columbus discovered oyster beds off the coast of Venezuela, on his third voyage to the Americas, the riches dredged up there helped to finance the splendors of the Renaissance, including, indirectly, some of those at the Frick.
