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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...
...whole this series is compelling. The Reds, two canvases painted much in the same style as Untitled I, contrasts with the latter because the colors begin to suggest forms. Orange and yellow hues which are etched onto the canvas side by side in the plane of purple, maroon and red hint at forms, not of anything recognizable but an area distinguished from the rest. This creates an intriguing tension between the equality of all the areas of the painting engendered by the harsh texture of the paint application, and the vague semblance of forms attributable to the proximity of similar...
Bush's exhibit contains a couple of works which diverge from the style of the diptychs but preserve their stronger elements. Veridian Haze lingers over all areas of the canvas, but it is much smoother in texture. The flashes of color are muted by two washes of green, one behind...
Multi Rose differs even more; it features a wash of pink and one dominant streak of color descending at the center and tracing the bottom edge of the canvas. This piece plays on the contrast between a monochrome background and the simple line composed of deep red, yellow and blue...
Van Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the...