Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more than the merest ghost of pathos--but you shudder at the gratuitousness of their posthumous torment. It's like a brief glimpse of animal hell, going on forever...
...Hamoudi, 112 Adams House student signed up to renew the murals. Each student was assigned a space on the tunnel walls and provided with brushes and professional-quality acrylic paints. Although aspiring artists were given free reign over their spaces, a poster warned against painting the stock phrase "[Blank] was here...
directed by Les Blank, Marureen Gosling, and Chris Simon...
From the western coast of this country comes a documentary which affirms the expansiveness and individualism at the heart of the U.S. of A. Documentarian Les Blank's hour-long exploration of the life of Garry Gaxiola, "The Maestro, King of the Cowboy Artists," will gladden the heart of anyone who fears for the fate of art for art's sake amidst the vastness of late twentieth century American capitalism...
Towards the end of the film, Gaxiola travels to see Christo's yellow umbrellas in the Southwest desert. He strides into the beautiful hills as he loads his paintgun. As he prepares to deface the umbrellas with a vigilante's red paint (a scene Blank does not film), he explains that it isn't that he doesn't respect Christo. Rather, he is "trying to becomes part of the history of his umbrellas." This type of language punctuates the otherwise campy (and fun) side of Gaxiola's personality with the happy result of widening the intellectual scope of the documentary...