Word: brillo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made--where striking visuals and fluffy text create and feed desire. In 1978 Warhol said, "I never read; I only look at pictures." He taught the idea crowd that everything out there was tasty bullshit, allowing them to round out their relativism. Eat up, he said. And so giant Brillo boxes colonized art galleries, challenging the exaggerated intellects of art critics. Meaning was out of fashion...
...that, there have arguably been just two moments of final consequence to art's mainstream in the past half-century: Abstract Expressionism, with its reinvention of the spiritual; and its brazen opposite, Pop, whose smart, smirking celebrations of Brillo boxes, billboards and Mickey Mouse smiled into the heart of postwar America and found it made of chrome...
...crash scenes pulled from the pages of the daily papers. The jolt of the work was its off-register blear, its bright-crude colors; but more so, his icy message that the whole world was product. If everything is reducible to an assembly-line image for sale, then Marilyn, Brillo, cows, Elvis and tabloid death are all equal--and equally convertible to cash. Warhol summed up his career with the words, "I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist...
...leavened the raw power of her vocals with sensitivity. Her muscular voice never strained, and she displayed impressive range and intonation. At times she could be sweet and velvety. Then she would let loose from the diaphragm and sing a chorus with no mercy. Such was the case with "Brillo Hunt." The song began coy and reserved, but the chorus exploded into crashing cymbals and distorted guitars as Deal's forceful voice ranged over surprisingly complex musical terrain...
...People were calling her Harvard, people werecalling her Velcro," he says, for her Brillo-likerough...