Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before Stieglitz died in 1946, his wife had quit New York to spend the summer months in seclusion in the Southwest. Since then, she has been known as America's "leading woman artist"-a boldly condescending phrase-and largely dismissed as irrelevant by generations weaned on Pollock and Kline. To younger painters, her articulate images of mountain, bone and desert looked merely provincial. The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex. But if it could...
Strenuous Responsibility. "Clean" is the adjective Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings constantly invite: clean as a bone, as a desert rock, as a haiku. She refutes the idea that discipline is masculine. O'Keeffe may, in a special sense, be the most aristocratic artist America has yet produced. This quality has nothing to do with a grand manner. It lies in its antithesis: her aloofness and precision, her refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past...
...razor-sharp exactitude, that leads some viewers to compare them to Surrealism. But surrealist imagery is, almost by definition, fantastic, whereas O'Keeffe's paintings insist that they are not dreams: the commonest object unfolds itself, seen awake in full sunlight. She is not a metaphorical artist (everything is what it is, and stands for nothing else), but her work is full of correspondences. There is not a nude in the show, not even a figure; yet her images are a rich and complex statement about female sexuality. All the other sexual painters are men and, like Picasso...
...ordinary to me, but not to you." Precisely. O'Keeffe's laconic familiarity with her own images is oddly reminiscent of William Blake's after-dinner chats with the Prophet Ezekiel. Vision, even mysticism, sits on her like a well-worn old coat. No other American artist, and few living painters anywhere, have fused their inner and outer worlds with such spare grace. The life and work...
...story concentrates on the mental disintegration of an Italian pop artist (Franco Nero). Tortured by paranoiac and frequently brutal sexual fantasies, the artist persuades his patron and mistress (Vanessa Redgrave) to rent him a long-deserted villa outside Milan-"a quiet place in the country." The villa turns out to have been the trysting place of a nymphomaniacal adolescent countess who was killed during the second World War. While his mistress stays m town, the artist settles down in the villa, only to become haunted, then possessed by the phantom presence of the dead girl...