Word: dining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXHIBITION of etchings and lithographs by Dine, currently at M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery, displays works from the 1970s, after Dine had left New York to teach at Oberlin and then lived in Europe for several years. Without trying to analyze step-by-step developments in Dine's graphic art during the past six years, the exhibition does a good job of showing major themes and trends...
...Dine, at the age of 41, can look back on almost two decades of creativity and success as an artist. Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1959, fresh from the University of Cinncinnati and the Boston Museum School, he met and was influenced by Claes Oldenburg, Jaspar Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. During the 1960s he became a major figure in the movement back to realism that formed in reaction to abstract expressionism...
...Dine's works during these years are theatrical and iconoclastic. Paintings like Black Bathroom #2, in which a china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of many of the works of this period is a keen sensitivity to and enjoyment of the sensuous feel of paint and the manipulation of brush and pencil. This sensitivity takes the form of subtle relationships between line, tone and texture in his graphic works...
...last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether to attend because Jimmy Carter was the main guest. When he finally decided to go, he told the audience, "I find myself in a great dilemma tonight. My Catholic friends of Polish descent assembled here shout, 'Come sit and dine with us!' My pro-life friends outside clamor, 'Come stand by us!' " The bishop compromised by condemning both Communism and abortion, hailing "God and country" and "liberty and life...
...series of incidents about a group of children in the French town of Theirs. Two boys sneak into a movie theater. A couple of brothers relieve a pal of his haircut money by tending to the tonsorial chores themselves. A little girl named Sylvie, sly and lovely, refuses to dine out with her parents, then organizes an intricate foodlift for herself among concerned neighbors...