Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Owen's book promises that a house is much more than "a huge box filled with complicated things that want to break." He writes, "My house was a canvas on which other people had been painting (or, more recently, wallpapering) for more than two hundred years." And then he waxes...
William began his love affair with ethnic subgroups 10 years ago, when despite a total lack of training in photography, he picked up a camera and plunged in, beginning what he calls his Social Studies series with Turkey's Kurds. He quickly developed a characteristic technique, which he has used...
Yet is there a duller or more formula-ridden artist in America than Salle in 1991, as he approaches the Big Four-Oh? His work, essentially, is a decoction from three other artists. From Robert Rauschenberg's combines of the '50s and his silk-screen "collages" of the early '60s...
One says "drawing" out of force of habit. At any rate, it is done with line. (It has to be, since Salle has no discernible sense of color: his range goes from putty to nasty anilines, but in this show a washed-out gray is the key.) Drawing, as anyone...
His desire to freeze accident remained with Ernst until the end of his life. After he escaped from Europe to America in 1941 -- his ticket was paid by Peggy Guggenheim, who was sexually obsessed by Ernst -- he lived for some years in Arizona, whose vast skies and mesas repeated the...