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...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...
...balloons, listening to the new Grateful Dead album pouring out of two huge speakers I've living room is well furnished, in fact the whole house is very comfortable, and brightly lit. A photograph of the New Riders of the Purple Sage sits on a fancy easel to one side, and there are poster for Ann Arbor rock concerts on the walls. I think: It's strange to relax in a strange home with strangers. Paul graciously keeps handing me a full balloon when mine's empty and refills the old one at the tank. If I were really taking...
...songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...