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Howe speaks about his materials, subjects and studio time with a certain humility, recounting how in his college days he painted on cardboard because he couldn't afford canvas, or calling one of his sketchier pieces a "naptime painting" because he created it when his toddler was a sleep. Although...
But peace is a luxury that cannot be bought, that is not available anywhere in this star-crossed country. When it appears, it is quickly unmasked as an illusion. And last week, somewhere outside the city, somebody aimed a mortar at the center of the crowded market, dropped a 120...
When the ambulances arrived, they found bodies -- and pieces of bodies -- scattered everywhere. Several had been decapitated by shards of flying steel. Eight were so badly mangled it was impossible to tell if they had been men or women. The dead were loaded into cars and pickups and even a...
He is like a painter that attacks the canvas with fun and excitement, and is then embarrassed to learn that he has created a masterpiece.
The show displays Frankenthaler's technique akin to "color field" painting, inspired by Jackson Pollock's "drip paintings." This method uses an unprimed canvas so the pigment seeps into the picture and creates a stain instead of sitting on top of the surface. Through this technique, Frankenthaler has explored the...