Word: airbrushing
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...characteristics of the style are extreme, deadpan literalness of image, generally repainted from photos with an airbrush, immaculate precision of surface, and a taste for mechanical subjects such as cars, fire trucks and long expanses of shiny kitchenware. The average result is an almost unimaginably stupid and passive materialism-the boredom of Warhol's silk-screened photos without their threat and bite. Thus, confronted for the nth time with another perfect rendering of reflections on the chrome gizzard of a Harley-Davidson or the pastille skin of a Volkswagen, one is apt to recall Truman Capote's sneer...
...then bother to rehash such a past, one that even the most skilled of touch-up artists couldn't airbrush into the semblance of virtue...
...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...