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The picture is a savagely forged transmutation of folk legend into macabre personal obsession. The oddly grayish canvas depicts at least 44 fantastically garbed elves, sprites, gnomes, and pixies. Some are so tiny that they can hardly be distinguished beneath leaves or behind other fairies' shoulders. And most have...
Some critics have suggested that a spell lies over the entire assemblage, to be broken only after the blade descends. Yet only an ax that severed the canvas itself could destroy the weird, calligraphic network of garlanded vines and leaves, giant blades of timothy and field grass that binds the...
Something Basic. The business was founded by Levi Strauss, a Bavarian peddler who followed the gold rush to California in 1850. He saw a demand for trousers strong enough to withstand the rigors of mining. Using bolts of tent canvas, he devised what quickly came to be known around San...
...decided that the "most neutral" place to start from was its center, and proceeded to pour, stain and swab paint in concentric circles outward. Noland played with half a dozen colors in such target paintings, devising hundreds of dashing combinations. He moved on to chevrons, then to diamond-shaped canvases. Since 1967, he has been painting majestically flowing, horizontally striped rectangles that enable him to orchestrate as many as 30 different shades at a time...
Other antic notions emerge as well. Militant playfulness seems to predominate in Sea Scape with Dunes. Its thorny blobs march across the canvas in a shape like a sea-horse at bay. A flamelike, almost scarifying vitality leaps forth from Interior Landscape, twisting savagely sidewise, up and around. Only the...