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Fabled Cipangu. These contrasts, within its art, between the spartan coarseness of a tea receptacle and the patient refinement of a makie lacquer box, between the swift brushwork of an ink painting and the daunting accumulation of labor represented by the embroidery of a silk No costume, have always given the Momoyama period a peculiar interest to Western eyes. This half-century was the point in Japanese culture that, in its secular largesse and curiosity about the real world, most resembled the European Renaissance. Indeed, it was during the Momoyama that the West's idea of Japan was shaped...
...left out of the accounts of New York art in the '50s; the very look of his paintings tells why. Rather than the complicated, relational colors of much abstract expressionism, Liberman used plain primaries. Instead of free drawing, he used ruler and compasses. Rather than drips and splashy brushwork, he went in for the most even and perfectly crafted skin of paint-flat, enameled, not a hair mark showing. Nothing could look less like a '"50s picture" than the smooth, symmetrical, emblematic formats Liberman was making in the 1950s. Except for one thing-his obsession with chance...
...Billboard chart this week and has topped $1,000,000 in sales in only a month. Win-wood's composition, Can't Find My Way Home, is a farm-fresh plaint, which he sings in a sad falsetto over Baker's insinuating brushwork and the harpsichord-like plucking of two acoustic guitars. Blind Faith's version of the old Buddy Holly tune, Well All Right, skips along with a blithe country feeling, and Clapton's Presence of the Lord has an ingenuous melody that rides over churchy harmonies and ends on a soothing, strange...
...around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human figure. He thereby ushered in a vital school of Bay Area artists who found a fresh range of figurative interpretation within the loose, easy brushwork of action painting...
...previous marriage on a farm in Bennington, Vt. His latest oils, shown at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this winter, also show a new, monumental serenity. Raffael now likes statelier themes: an Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised to a magical, almost religious level by his extraordinarily vibrant brushwork and imaginative palette. "I'm withdrawing a bit," he says, "searching for what archaeologists call 'a find,' for the jewels we can dig out of us." His Salmon is such a precious relic-a dying fish preserved by the artist's reverent brush as a glowing...