Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fourth. To Cincinnatians, every horrifying detail was already all too familiar. Mrs. Hochhausler, mother of nine, was the fourth middle-aged woman to die in similar fashion in the same seemingly safe suburban surroundings. Last Dec. 2, Mrs. Emogene D. Harringon, 56, wife of a University of Cincinnati professor, was strangled with a length of knotted plastic clothesline in the basement of her apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer...
...reporter's proper enthusiasm for lengthy bouts of bloody and dangerous combat. Too many U.S. newsmen, Marshall complains, are like the TV crews who "want blood on the moon every night." They make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went-wrong story. Hapless civilians have been killed in every war fought by the U.S., but only in Viet Nam, where...
...pictures are solemn brown studies. Here and there, light flashes within them like electricity inside a summer thunderhead. At first glance, they are quiet paintings of commonplace subjects-familiar faces, weather-beaten buckets, battered stone walls and boulders - with none of the candy-colored savor of pop culture or the treacle of lap dogs and firesides. Basically, An drew Wyeth paints his own backyard...
...origin of Warhol's breakdown of illusionistic subject matter goes back to Robert Rauschenberg, painting in the fifties. Rauschenberg was the first painter to incorporate everyday objects directly into the composition of his paintings. Jasper Johns developed on this approach by focusing on familiar objects individually so that the objects became the center of interest rather than a visual component of a larger composition. Jasper Johns' painting of Three Flags is one of the first completely static paintings in modern art. Its lack of visual movement, makes it an almost emblematic representation. Yet, both Rauschenberg and Johns handle paint with...
Warhol's style, on the other hand, is distinctly unexpressive and unindividual. As he associates his paintings to the familiar surroundings of his viewer--spatially and with the objects he represents--he also attempts to remove any sign of individual or personal involvement in production. The idea is to keep the paintings free from any personal touch which might be more meaningful to the artist than to random viewer. Some of his early pieces--like the dollar bills--are made with a rubber stamp, but more re- cently he has begun to reproduce his paintings with silk screen. For Warhol...