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"Painters paint on canvas," Conductor Leopold Stokowski once lectured an unruly audience. "We paint our tone pictures on silence. Only you can supply that."
"Painting is my language," says Baruchello, son of an Italian lawyer. Neither pop nor op, his vocabulary is intellectual, full of hints-a Proustian complex of personal remembrance. And he inscribes his nib's nuances as if they were the scientific jiggling track of his own electroencephalograph. "To throw...
In Pasternak's novel, the love story of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) was part of a vast canvas of war, revolution and social upheaval. Scenarist Robert Bolt has condensed much of this story through a narrator, Yuri's Bolshevik brother (Alec Guinness). The...
Irreconcilable Appearances. "Painting relates to both art and life," says Artist Robert Rauschenberg enthusiastically. "Neither can be made. I try to act in the gap between the two." His most spectacular feat of gapsmanship was his trend-setting Angora goat with rubber tire. It seems that Rauschenberg was struck by...
Believing, too, that art is no longer something better than life, these artists have made collage-by definition, a simple matter of gluing things on canvas-into a baroque explosion. Junk, advertising images, taxidermy, cups and saucers are now all straining beyond the frame, blurring the division between painting and...