Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, featuring 220 drawings and collages, seeks to trace Kelly's formative years in France as a young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was his own effacement." During the period of 1948-1955, Kelly sought to find a way not to compose, to relinquish personal agency over his work. The exhibit, arranged chronologically, depicts three methods: the direct copy or transfer system, automatic drawings, and grid work established by chance...
...seaweed plant pinned to the door of Kelly's Bellelle cottage. At first sight, especially due to its placement near some of Kelly's transfers of window frames, one might mistake Study for Seaweed for window glass being broken by the intrusive head of a nail or perhaps the artist's pencil. In fact, it is sometimes extremely difficult to discern the content of these paintings. But that is not the point. You see, Kelly added the descriptive names to these works as an afterthought years later...
...pictures other than the current nominee, but both were hugely influential in the film community. Malick's limited filmography has only made him more of a critical darling--so far, he's three for three. His work in The Thin Red Line is clearly that of a mature artist, but the film's metaphysical slant sticks its creator with an "arty" label that is somewhat limiting...
Back in France after 1824, Ingres created a gallery of the rich and the powerful (bankers, royalty, a newspaper owner, beautiful femmes du monde) that seems to define the high society of its day as fully as Felix Nadar's photographs recorded the artistic elites of the 1850s and '60s. Ingres loved doing portraits--and hated it. It was both hackwork and the vehicle of some of his highest instincts as an artist. It drove him crazy: "I don't know how to draw anymore," this greatest of 19th century draftsmen moaned to a friend. "I don't know anything...
LAURYN HILL Nabs five Grammys, including best album and new artist. Alas, just beaten out for best polka...