Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For a time it appeared that Wepner would chug along until the end of the fight, but the 33-year-old champion lashed out with two combinations to the head that sent Wepner to his rendezvous with the canvas.
Art thefts, of course, are not confined to Italy. In May 1973, during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's...
The Hayden Gallery exhibition of drawings by Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Line, and Guston is a pleasant exception to the rule. These five painters have been labeled Abstract Impressionists because they broke with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock...
Abstract Impressionists have also been called Action Painters because they place so much emphasis on the brush and pen stroke itself. In fact, Jackson Pollock once explained his art by saying, "The source of my painting is the unconscious," and his works, some of which have been made with sticks...
The magnificent obsession of Sachio Yamashita is to turn the gray streets and buildings of Chicago into a splendiferous explosion of color. "The whole city is my canvas," declares the slight, goateed artist, who left Japan in 1968 to join the faculty of Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. So...