Word: easel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photographs Raffael used had an obvious function: they froze time. Pictures of this size (some 6 ft. by 9 ft.) cannot readily be made by setting up an easel beside some river in northern California; only Monet, with his unequaled powers of observing and retaining a fleeting effect of light and movement, could paint his water-lily murals in open air at Giverny with gardeners struggling to haul the vast 19-ft. canvases in and out of his studio. But Raffael's images are not ruled by their starting point in the photo. They are recreation, not enlargement; between...
...film-making." The first offering on the open air screen was about a socialist leader murdered by Mussolini; it was followed by the first in a set of "open debates" among the audience. Round the clock the television screens showed tapes of interviews on social questions. On a large easel nearby stood hand-written manifestoes calling for reorganization of the film industry and continued opposition to fascism...
...Olitski is clearly still exploring the ideas with which he has had such success so far, and his work promises further advances in a form -- the easel painting -- which since the century began has continually been being saved from the edge of apparent extinction...
...most interesting of the film, but it hints at a kind of fatal demystification to which modern methods of working are particularly subject. The process of painting no longer seems like that of an artist creating from sheer, inner self. With Pollock there came the negation of the easel and, for the most part, the brush. De Kooning spent almost as much time scraping rejected versions of his Women off the canvas as painting them onto it. Here, Larry Poons--who looks like a football lineman but, the film tells us, actually began as a part-time short order cook...
...blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps the funniest skit is one featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, who slithers around with shoes on his knees and tries desperately to heft a huge canvas onto an easel beyond his reach...