Word: fungus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawkes is preoccupied with decay, with the rust on an abandoned gun or the fungus on a dead soldier. He is preoccupied with disgust, with the technical details of wringing a chicken's neck or the inept skinning of a fox. He is preoccupied with the warriors and valkyries of the German folk-myths...
...William Baziotes, 38, used titles too. His Mummy, a formless fungus floating in green scum, was rich and strange enough to stick in the mind's eye-whether one wanted it there or not. Baziotes' confections of molasses-sweet color and protoplasmic shapes are never planned in advance. "Each painting," he once explained, "comes about in a different way. Some are started with a few touches of color, others with lines. Sometimes nothing happens. I have to give up. But when the urge comes I work swiftly. When I am finished, the painting means something...