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That's how the ad in the Village Voice ran and, while it wouldn't exactly be like having Mickey Mantle endorse your shaving cream, manufacturers might well consider what Andy's painstaking pop pictures did for Campbell Soups. As yet no helium or whip manufacturers have...
There were paintings, sculpture, dance and music-of a sort. At the happenings that Kaprow and his colleagues staged, the "actors" splashed paint on canvas, played electronic John Cage music, danced like puppets with leaden strings, climbed up cardboard mountains, peeled oranges and clothes on stage. To get the audience...
What he discovered, said Matisse, was "something that was always the same and that, at first glance, I thought to be monotonous repetition. It was the mark of my personality. I made an effort to develop this personality by counting above all on my intuition. I said to myself: '...
Seraglios & Poufs. His performance on canvas shows that in finding his own style, Matisse had simply let his left hand tell him what his right hand should do. In 1911 and 1912, he visited sunny Morocco and, like Delacroix 80 years before him, fell in love with its Moorish seraglios...
For himself, Johnson tries to express a recognizable, timeless image of the human figure in the wet, free speech of oil paint. To keep it from becoming rigid and lifeless, he keeps himself off balance too, has even painted over his shoulder without looking at the canvas.