Word: airbrush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kansas City Art Institute. He abandoned his geometric-strip canvases because they were "constricting." Now he lays his canvas on the floor and paints or sprays the background on. Next he sprays on the dancing dervish loops and lines that race across them with an industrial airbrush. Finally, he cuts out the picture he wants from the panorama that he has created. He considers titles irrelevant. Red/ Red was called that because he wanted to make a picture redder and more intense than any he had made before. He has done...
Nevertheless, a lot of things go wrong in Hubley's universe. Too often his art smells of the airbrush. Too often his narration reads like a high school science lecture. All the same it is well to remember that, for the present, the alternative to Hubley's unperfected universe is the witless world of Yogi Bear...
...Willis by taking out a big flap of bone from the skull. (An arteriogram-an X ray of the brain's blood vessels involving the injection of radio-opaque dye into the patient-will have already spotted the site of the aneurysm.) Then, using an artist's airbrush, Selverstone sprays the aneurysm with a mixture of plastics that combine to form a coating similar to Saran Wrap. This is tough, but too thin to give full protection against further leakage or bursting. So he sprays on a second layer, of epoxy plastic. The result: enclosure of the aneurysm...
...Lollos about "altogether in the altogether" and slinks around in the usual Oriental undies, looking as if she had dressed herself with an airbrush, flaring her nostrils and moaning: "Geeve heem to me. I want heem at my feet." Brynner tries hard to keep up, but he lacks Gina's natural bounce as a performer - and besides, his most photogenic feature is concealed by a wig. But he does manage to draw the biggest laugh in the picture when he remarks, as the camera turns to see what he claims to see in Gina: "Behind those lovely eyes...