Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, Schwitters escaped to Scotland on a ship with his son and spent 16 months in British internment camps. The camp officials humored him. They let him cut up the kitchen linoleum to paint on, since there was no canvas. Later he settled in the Lake District, produced an uninterrupted...
The first of the series, "End of the Brownstone Era or Tower of Babel," is a canvas crowded with the mass shapes of an urban nightmare. Harshly cubist in its leanings, the work centers on a large tower pricking its way from the sludge of sewers into a haze of...
In the second canvas of the triptych, "Epidemic," Lichtblau presents a grim, horrific picture of devastation. The shapes, cubist skyscrapers, still pierce their grotesque bleakness toward a pale sun in the center of the painting. The viewer looks up to the gray and lavender sky, feeling as though he too...
Thus moving from the canvas to billboards, the Constructivists designed posters propagandizing the Bolshevik movement: "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" or "Man in the service of technology." Architectural construction, of workers' clubs or radio stations rang with the Constructivist cry, "Art into life!" (Vladimir Tatlin) an antecedent to...
Changing Stereotype. The fact remains that no American city outside New York has produced such a remarkable number of vital talents as Los Angeles. The minimal cool and delicacy of much Los Angeles work can be seen as partly a retreat from the incredibly blatant environment in which it is...