Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better hat up, Rodent, because it looks like Black Man is here to stay. Thanks to Tom Floyd, a Gary, Ind., commercial artist, young blacks can look up to an authentic soul hero. The first edition of Black Man Comics will shortly hit the newsstands with a very soulful twist on the requisite introductory issue: like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel, Black Man is born of the transformation of a clean-cut young man into a creature possessed of superhuman powers...
...first abstract artist...
...really believe," Kandinsky wrote toward the end of his life, "that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well...
Thanks to the Guggenheim Museum, whose founder bought more than 100 Kandinskys during the 1930s, there has always been a special relationship between the artist and a city he never visited, New York. Next week a major Kandinsky retrospective opens at the Guggenheim, giving New Yorkers and others a further chance to assess this curious, prophetic and rather aloof figure and to see how close to the core of modernism his visions...
Kandinsky's sensitivity to color was so extreme that, had he not been an artist, it might have been a neurosis; and the action of one color on its neighbor was the object of study in this weightless laboratory. He was sometimes too ridden with theory, sometimes tangled in the impossible web of his own tiny pictorial decisions. But there has never been a modern painter in whom idea, purpose and act ran more harmoniously than in Kandinsky at his best. Perhaps there never will...