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Craig's women are portrayed as cunning, deceitful and expendable. Leave them for a few hours and they feel they have been deserted. Craig likes to drop big names, from Bobby Kennedy to Ingmar Bergman. At one point, who should appear in a Cannes restaurant but Pablo Picasso, "bull...
Picasso's effect on the sociology of art was in no way less radical. That restless inventiveness provoked in collectors the expectations about stylistic "turnover" that, now built into the market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no...
IN THE "MATURE" works -- from the late sixties to date -- Olitski creates paintings that are models of what a good abstract painting should be. The problem of uniting form and content, honesty and illusion is made almost symbolically explicit by the use of the inner color field and its surrounding...
When Olitski fails, it is by slipping off into one of the surrounding extremes. Pink Alert, the painting that stands at the entrance to the exhibit, demonstrates the original ideas executed at their best, with the edging strokes well defined, scaled and composed, and the gradation of the color field...
...addition, he conquers many of the problems of scale which have bothered some other abstractionists, particularly Kenneth Noland. Abstract pictures have usually been able to be successful only on enormous canvases; Olitski works equally well in room-sized paintings and in small ones. His spray technique has a finer grain, so to speak, than staining or brushing, and it creates surfaces which because they cover the canvas completely are not immediately scaled by the weave of the cloth. And in his paintings of this year and last, particularly the Other Flesh series, he employs rollers and sponges with a syrupy...