Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gas stations, hotel lobbies, rooming houses, side streets, Pullman compartments, lighted windows, underpasses-such are the meager materials Hopper chooses to make immutable and unforgettable on canvas. Their fascination for him lies in the fact they are manmade, and common-man-made. He finds them appropriate for the expression of...
Everything in Hopper's existence is geared to painting, but he finds the task terribly hard. He can seldom face canvas. He always hopes that his frequent trips will result in new works, but has learned, to his pain, that they need not. Once he spent a whole summer...
The Fountain's fatal weakness is an unnatural and very unmusical style of dialogue. Modeled on Victorian storybooks for young readers (e.g., "Children, is it not about this time that the lapegeria comes out at Kew?"), it makes all the characters, without exception, sound like awkward, clockwork dolls. Too...
Toronto to Tasmania. For a few moments in the first round, men who had bet on Moore could still tell themselves that their money was safe. Archie's shuffling, flat-footed style seemed to be keeping him out of trouble. He even landed a couple of crisp rights. Maybe...
Whether or not the viewer understands all that there is to see when he first comes upon a Shahn canvas, at least he is not put off by it. He knows for example that there is a man lying on the beach in "pacific Landscape." He may wonder why the...