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Visibly shaking with nervousness and anticipation, Mathieu paced barefooted beside a huge, 25-ft.-by-7-ft. canvas stretched on the garage glower-glower ing as his assistants laid out boxes of paint tubes, a big sake bottle filled with tur pentine, bundles of brushes, and a dozen brass mixing...
He gripped four tubes in either hand, emp tied them in one mighty salvo, next grabbed the sake bottle of turpentine and upended it over the canvas, then dropped to his knees, began fiercely swabbing the surface with a towel, finally swarmed directly onto the canvas itself.
Buccaneer's Rush. With the canvas well primed. Mathieu paused to swig down a frothing glass of Japanese beer while assistants propped the work up against the wall. Then, glaring like a buc caneer about to board ship, he kicked at the debris of brushes, tubes and bottles, plunged...
He returned to the beer and charged again. Aiming a 5-ft. brush like a lance, he carved broad, pink lines running the length of the 25-ft. canvas. From then on, the battle raged with such fury that Mathieu was soaked in paint, turpentine and sweat. Soon the Japanese...
Easterner Stallknecht has had her greatest success in the West, with a traveling show this summer that went to Colorado Springs, Pasadena, San Diego and San Francisco. In the exhibition catalogue, Art Historian Lloyd Goodrich of Manhattan's Whitney Museum went full out for Stallknecht's work, describing...