Word: caret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background of fire. Yet on this preposterous level, it does work as an image, generating enough energy to blow its neighbors off the wall...