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...technique. Now he himself makes the wood molds in his studio, takes them to a factory, where he supervises the casting process. - Douglas Wheeler, 29, studied at Los Angeles' Chouinard Art Institute, and was strongly influenced by Irwin. In 1964 he began experimenting with lights cast onto an easel painting, soon found the canvas format constricting. He rented an old department store in the rundown beach town of Venice, and began transforming entire rooms into oases of light. Today he mounts large, square sheets of Plexiglas on the wall, paints them white, attaches neon tubes behind the edges...
...very mention of photography has long repelled serious easel painters, despite the fact that Corot, Cézanne and Manet all made use of the camera. Corot got the idea for his blurry landscapes from seeing an early silver print. Cézanne used photographs for his self-portraits. Manet painted his famed Execution of Emperor Maximilian from a news photograph...
...lover Godoy had reduced the Bourbon court to its final debility), and the self-centered vacuity of their relations. In imitation of Velasquez' 1656 portrayal of the royal maids of honor, Las Meninas, Goya painted himself into the picture as a prim, critical observer at his easel on the left of the picture...
...medievalism, in the Victorian fashion, laid the foundation of a busy, prosperous and productive life. He detested the Renaissance, but he was close to resembling the common notion of what a many-faceted Renaissance man should be. Biographer Henderson presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired at last...
...found objects and even entire plaster sculptures. And their subject matter is as apocalyptic as their technique is accomplished. Typical is his self-portrait of the artist at work. Whiteley painted in his head, wreathed in its halo of reddish hair, and showed his left hand drawing at an easel. But the right, black-shirted arm snakes out across the floor to where his twisted, plaster-spattered fingers offer the startled viewer a fresh carnation (the gallery changes it daily...