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...often in recent years, Frankenthaler seems to have been content with the merely evocative. "Soapsuds and whitewash!" was the cry when Turner exhibited his more abstract seapieces, but it seems to apply more properly to Frankenthaler's atmosphere-laden abstract paintings of the '80s, with their elaborately swoony brushwork and cunning embellishments of not-quite- naturalistic light. They are very assured but seem a touch overpleased with their own sensitivity. Yet it would be a pity, all the same, if the present decade's recoil from the inflated historical claims made for color-field painting stopped one from enjoying this...
Gifted artisans, who abound in the land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...
...master draftsmen ever to live in the U.S. - has softened to a re markable degree. One feels the removal of de Kooning's cubist under props, and it is a loss; the surface that remains is too gooey to sustain the flailing energies of brushwork and brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from the '40s and '50s: that these paintings do not al ways prove their necessity, and their joie de vivre comes...
...victim of Victorian repression -she did not leave home until the age of 47-and her prose is marked with arch names and marred with punishments for the nonconformist. Her artwork is another matter: from childhood, Beatrix commanded a delicate palette and an irrepressible whimsy. Her meticulous brushwork animated an entire barnyard world. The early Disney derives from her fantasies. So do the shenanigans of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck -as well as the anthropomorphic enchantments of many current children's books...
Princeton's Mike Knockles and Keith Ely supplied additional bold strokes of brushwork to the Jadwin Gymnasium canvas, pasting the somewhat plastic torsos of freshmen Bill Mulvihill and captain Jim Strathmeyer to the mats...