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Winston Churchill retouching Peter Paul Rubens? During the war, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a TV interviewer, it happened to a painting by Rubens and Artist Frans Snyders that hangs at the P.M.'s country house, Chequers. Although the canvas was supposed to depict Aesop's fable...
James Brown's "Red Zip," for example, uses Kenneth Noland's ruler-straight horizontal stripes. The painting concerns itself with color relativity-two burgundy stripes surround a red one, two reds an orange, and two oranges a yellow, reading down the canvas. Alex Packer's "Blues Progression" is a similar...
While Miss Schuman tries for an illusion of depth, Jamie Smith actually builds out the canvas with pounds of acrylic paint. Smith's "Orpheus" is a light-flooded canvas reminiscent of Impressionism. Roughly textured yellow-greens make up a landscape with field and trees. David Brown uses elaborate surface treatment...
A retrospective exhibition of his work, currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, shows how he has changed from black rectangles patterned with a design of pinstripes done in 1958 to bold inventions of interlocked geometrical forms. No single canvas in his group of paintings can make...
With a burst into more daring shapes. Stella gave up pinstripes and fired the canvas with new color. At first glance, "Chocorua," named for a New Hampshire mountain, looks like a triangle imposed upon a rectangle, piercing the edge. But on closer scrutiny, this drawing is complex. Wide bands of...