Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motherwell spoke about the development of 20th century art and about his own development as an artist and showed hundreds of slides of his own work, and his studio at his home in Greenwich, Conn...
...favorite artist of the 20th century is Matisse," Motherwell said. When he first saw a Matisse he decided to leave graduate school and go to France to study art, he added...
...very pleased" about winning, said Bagley, who wrote his essay two years ago as an aid for students in his Fine Arts tutorial on Chinese Bronze Art...
...fans. Discussion panels included authors such as Frank Herbert, Gordon Dickson, John Brunner and Larry Niven. Dealers offered used and out-of-print books, records, games, posters and T-shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...
...worn off - as, inevitably, it does - can one feel that an organizing, selective imagination has been intelligently brought to bear on its raw material. Instead we are offered a basic theatrical package, a quick jolt to the sense of reality which, unlike the pleasures of more organized or complex art, fails to renew itself. It all ends up as Norman Rockwell in 3-D and grimy jeans, minus the period optimism: not contemptible, but not the stuff of which anything but il lustration can be made . Robert Hughes