Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stacy pushes open the door into the clinic building, Gilmartin presses some pamphlets into her hand. One, with color photographs of discarded fetuses, has big black words: HUMAN GARBAGE. "Did you know this is how big you were when you were only eleven weeks old?" the pamphlet asks. "From then on you breathed [fluid], swallowed, digested and urinated ... No new organs began functioning after that. You just grew more mature...
...Turner retrospective at the Royal Academy; the second was Constable at the Tate Gallery. Now it is William Blake's turn. Through May, some 340 of his works are on view at the Tate, in a comprehensive show organized by Art Historian Martin Butlin: paintings, drawings, watercolors, woodcuts, color prints, illustrated books...
Truth was in line, not in color or tone. Some of Blake's most acrid denunciations were reserved for Rembrandt and Rubens, in whose "dark caverns" and "hellish brownness" the true lessons of Raphael and Michelangelo were, in his opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung...
...Based on Revelation 12: 1-4, it stands at the extreme opposite end of the scale of feeling from Blake's lyric inventions, the visions of Eden, of childhood and angelic morning stars. It was as a biblical illustrator that Blake achieved his greatness as an artist. His color prints of 1795, along with his illustrations of Milton and biblical water-colors of 1800-09, contain some of the most sublime and tragic images of the body ever to be put on small sheets of paper. Never again would the nude be made to carry such a wealth...
Works dwell more on color, emotions, and light than on the figures themselves. They also deal with a potpourri of contemporary and traditional settings for the figures. For example, while one painting deals with a suburban poolside scene, a sculpture, entitled "The Falling Couple," seems to concern man's fall from paradise. The irony of seeing these two works in one room detracts from the figures in the works. In this general confusion there are, though, some fascinating works...