Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emblems than descriptions: bold, rather clunky equine silhouettes embedded in flat, abstract space, with the totemic air of cave paintings. Their primitive look was, in fact, quotation; it was clear from her knowing use of close-valued color and her pasty, elegantly manipulated pigment that she was already an artist of considerable sophistication. What was not clear was where she could take this quasi-heraldic imagery if she was going to hold on to her roots in pictorial minimalism. One soon found out. Rothenberg clung to the human figure, presenting it as a collection of parts, signs and & fragments...
...much, subliminally or not, Giacometti has meant to Rothenberg. This probing for form through a web, a mist of approximate lines, so that the never-quite-final shape becomes a palimpsest of recorded attempts to fix it, echoes Giacometti's own anxiety before his subjects. How can the artist be sure, and make you sure, what is there? For Rothenberg the problem becomes worse, because she chooses subjects in movement, the opposite of Giacometti's hieratic stillness. It does not always come off, but when it does you are made sharply aware of the breadth of Rothenberg's pictorial ambitions...
...There is a distance between the artist and the object. I wanted [the students] to break down the barrier between the artist and object," the VES lecturer said. Taho added, "Because they will have eaten it, the chicken will be a part of [the students'] bodies. This experience will expand their imagination and understanding...
Frank Stella is 51 this year, too old to be a prodigy but still young for an artist, and his second retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City -- consisting of work done since 1970, the year of his first one -- has just opened. He is one of the very few American artists to get this double crown in their lifetime, thanks to the enthusiasm with which William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, views his work. It is hardly an exaggeration that MOMA treats Stella as Jackson Pollock's true dauphin in the lineage...
...wife and I write together. We actually have the same view of the question of stereotypes which is that the primary function--now, we may be wrong in this and stereotypes may do a great deal of harm--but that the primary function as a writer, as an artist, is to hold the mirror up to nature and to depict women and Black people as you perceive them, not how they should...