Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak of a "comeback" by an artist as conspicuous as Motherwell may seem odd, but it has a certain point. At 57, he is one of the last charter members of the New York School of the 1940s to remain alive and painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that...
...being social, rather than going to cocktail parties," he says. "It's also an excellent relief from the anguish of painting-an attempt to regain my social equilibrium and to give back to society something of what it has so generously given me: education, respect, dignity, artistic freedom." Thus he is the opposite of the cliché that stuck to Abstract Expressionism-the artist as roaring boy, trapped and goaded by his own tragic energies, armed with much myth but no history, articulate only at brush point...
...reporting was) was the description of the dining rooms. They are not oaken as stated. One is dark stained pine planks, one is painted and one is papered. As to the reference to the "Dubuffet reporductions on the walls," that is just plain laughable in its ignorance. The artist's name happens to be Bernard Buffet, he enjoys some small amount of fame, and the one Buffet we have is an original. It seems the eyes that mistakenly reported oaken walls everywhere also misread the signature of an artist they were unfamiliar with...
Most of the portrayals are equally competent if occasionally irritating. Daniel Von Gargen as the artist trying to marry Vandergelder's timid niece Ermengarde often seems too foppishly petulant in his clownish suit. And the cook in the VanHuysen household (to which Ermengarde is sent for safe-keeping), provides a disturbingly vague ethnic element in a frenetic last act which otherwise finally gives itself over to the true spirit of the farce. Was she Swedish, Hungarian, German...
...Meeting of the Spirits." "You Know You Know," and "Dreams," the structure is similar. The emphasis at all times is on spiralling speed, not speed as flash (that's best left to the Alvin Lees and Johnny Winters) but speed with taste, leading to a spiritual experience for the artist, and perhaps for the listener. The effect is that the intensity of the music sucks the listener skyward...