Ms. Gornik takes a kind of postmodern approach to landscape, with color in a minor key that gives the painting a coolly detachedmood, as if she were deliberately playing against the emotional intensity that has been such a signature element of this genre, particularly in 19th-century America.
But in its zeal to tilt the balance of political power away from Washington towards the states, the court's majority has embarked on a venture as detached from any constitutional moorings as was the liberal Warren Court of the 1960s in its most activist mood.