Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Claes Oldenburg, 44, artist, from...
...best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
...maintain a competitive program. Edo, who after 25 years at Harvard, still has an accent one could find in the market district of Prague, who talks more and more rapidly with each succeeding year and demands more and more concentration to understand, who is a humanitarian and an artist first and a coach second, who punctuates his nearly-unintelligible stream of consciousness conversations with nostalgic recollections of Europe and his variable and impressive career. Edo who is as close a facsimile of the renaissance man as one can find anywhere west of Vienna, who on isolated, occasions has likened...
...beginning, it was linked to (and may have come from) niello-work, a decorative technique used by goldsmiths and armorers since the Middle Ages. With his sharp cutting and scratching points, his burin and needle and burnisher, the artist scribed a design on a metal plate and filled its grooves with a black pigment which, when heated, solidified like enamel...
Guggenheim Museum were five 6-ft.-long airplanes that had been painted with huge biomorphic swirls of red, yellow, blue and black by American Artist Alexander Colder...