Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, in those last years of the School of Paris, when French cultural chauvinism was quite as bloated as its American counterpart later became, Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French...
...show is the result of three years' research by Art Historian Margit Rowell, whose catalogue-assisted with material from another student of Kupka's art, Meda Mladek-becomes the definitive work so far on this little-known, uneven but (at best) engrossing artist...
Since Cezanne, one of the stumbling blocks of figurative art had been mod ern dress. Cloaks and perukes are all very well, but what artist in this century has made anything of the dull flaps and tubes that constitute a business suit...
Certainly a part of this reaction is that Puritan guilt yanking at the American heart strings: art is supposed to be work, back-breaking, meticulous, a blood and sweat document of the starving artist. Lichtenstein seems like the smart-aleck who is getting away with cheating...
Prisoner in Disguise, more skillful and refined than even Heart Like A Wheel, is Ronstadt's best production. The unrestrained, often sloppy amateur of only a couple of years ago has become a disciplined artist with one of the most forceful, versatile voices in rock, folk, or country music. She isn't doing as much experimenting as she used to, and maybe that means she is resting on her laurels. More likely it means she finds it more useful to continue developing and polishing the styles with which she has been most successful. That has been a continuing challenge...