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"The only inclination that one can have is, progressively, to purify the transfer of nature to canvas." --Andre Derain
The method of "transfer of nature to canvas" differs from artist to artist, but the underlying theme seems to be a simplification of natural forms to their bare essence. The genre attempts to narrow the dichotomy between form and content. The artists' subjects are brought to the surface by means...
The great distinction of Hughes' approach is that he can move, commandingly, from a Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and...
X, as insiders call it, won't be released until the Christmas season. But already Lee has fought off rival attempts to make the film, wrangled with the poet Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones) and other black nationalists about how their hero should be portrayed on the screen...
John Berger's collection of essays Keeping a Rendezvous approaches writing as an act of love. Berger's innovative art criticism explores not only the artwork itself but also the participating role of the art observer and the act of love that conspires between the canvas and the viewer.