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FOR the past nine years, Robert Ryman, 38, a shy, quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or...
Living in a rambling adobe house in the sun-baked New Mexico mountains, still painting stark, haunting canvases as she nears her 81st year, Georgia O'Keeffe is as full of flash and flint as ever. "Art critics read into my paintings things about themselves that have nothing to do with me at all," she told a reporter. "I don't think my subconscious is all that crazy. The meaning is there on canvas. If you don't get it, that's too bad." And what was she working on right now? inquired the reporter. "Nothing...
"Many painters," the biographer Giorgio Vasari noted in 1550, "achieve in the first sketch of their work, as though guided by a sort of fire of inspiration, a certain measure of boldness: but afterwards, in finishing it, the boldness vanishes." The first sketch of which Vasari spoke was usually an...
The result is a series of melancholy pools of radiance. For some time, Poons' dots have been growing larger and more transparent. Now, in addition, he creates a varied, blotchy background by pouring his paint directly onto a canvas spread on the floor, then sweeping the color around with...
In São Paulo, the National Students Union (UNE), outlawed by the military government, was playing cops-and-mouse with security police. No one had forgotten last summer's mass demonstrations (TIME, July 5). From all over Brazil, 739 student leaders descended on a remote farm in the...