Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Returning from last spring's show to the current exhibit, a painting called Eighth Loosha typifies the best in Olitski's work. The canvas is a large rectangle, slightly higher than it is wide. In its center is an area of rich purple, built up from layers of sprayed acrylic...
TO PAINT a picture like this required Olitski to paint his way through years of difficulty. The earliest paintings included in the show are a whole room full of small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches...
At a base movie theater in Saigon, amidst dormant popcorn machines and the empty "coming attraction" windows that had once trumpeted the derring-do of the Green Berets, some 200 soldiers, secretaries and journalists listened to the disembodied voice of an Army public affairs officer hidden behind a stage curtain...
In the early fifties, the avant-garde knew Jackson Pollock as a man who might come into his favorite East Hampton bar late one night, have a few drinks, and knock his fellow painter Franz Kline across the room. Folks at home knew him, thanks to Henry Luce's magazines...
...taped to the floor. We see Poons and an assistant peeling the finished canvas from the floor, rolling it up and taking it to a frame to be cropped. For all its supposed inaccessibility, this sort of painting is closer to everyday physical labor than any in the past. Canvases are manhandled like pieces of building material, and the studio has become as cluttered as a factory workshop. The kind of decisions the artist makes no longer face him with each brush stroke: this is the painting of accident and subsequent discovery, where the giving of shape and scale...