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Word: dalinian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
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...century ago. Yet when the '80s have receded, it will seem odd that the feeble draftsmanship in Clemente's washed-out frescoes should once have been applauded, or that the lurid bombast of even the better works of Cucchi, such as the droopy head that lies like a huge Dalinian watch along the cemetery roof in Stupid Picture, 1982, could have been thought heroic in scale. In fact, there is less scale in such work than brute size. To see what the scale of an image can mean in terms of real address to the eye, one must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raw Talk, but Cooked Painting | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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