Word: easel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon, Pavarotti attacks his easel. Three years ago, a fan in Chicago gave him a set of oil paints after seeing him portray the artist Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca. He taught himself to paint large, naif landscapes in blazing colors, most of them based on postcard photos of places he has never seen...
...their encounter, in that blue, patiently rendered limpidity, that is so arresting. Magritte's best images have more in common with reporting than with fantasy. Would The Human Condition I, one of his half-dozen most famous images-the painting shows an open window with an easel in front of it; the canvas on the easel bears a picture of the view through the window; and this picture exactly overlaps the view, so that the play between image and reality asserts that the real world is merely a construction of mind-be any more jarring if its locale were...
...with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters. But New York, as always, is a state of mind; it is what you think it is. Not long ago a painter set up an easel on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting...
...when he tries to assume the stance of someone caught inside, in the work-a-day world, it's hard either to accept or be interested in it. Springsteen is a wonderful painter of the social landscape, but as a social critic he is standing at the wrong easel...
...Joan Miro's art has radically changed from his early work. Yet, without becoming stale, the motives behind it are still somewhat the same. As Miro wrote in 1939, describing his early struggles for recognition, he has constantly striven, whatever medium he uses, "To try and go further than easel painting... to try to go as far as possible and through painting to get closer to the people who are never out of my mind...