Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast majority of Colescott's work is incredibly varied and can only be linked in small groups. He is probably best known for his series of appropriations of other painters' works, including a Courbet, a Van Eyck, a Vermeer and a Van Gogh. In these he often changed the race of the figures or added captions and altered the size of the piece. He produced a few works in the Abstract Expressionist vein, which focused on the significance of color and gesture. He employed a cartoon style to address political issues. Among other politically-motivated works, Colescott discussed a painting...
Coupling commercial techno-kitsch with the masterworks of Van Gogh and Picasso is like crossing the book Private Parts by Howard Stern with the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut. Thank you, Vegas, for your attempts at high art, but no thanks. A Warholian approach might have been more fitting. DOUG HATCH Madison...
...them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss over Riley Weston, it did serve to remind me that I have yet to produce a masterwork of my own and that Van Gogh was 37 when he died...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Crowds pack D.C.'s National Museum of Art to see exhibit of his masterpieces...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Hip in D.C., square in N.Y.C. Museum of Modern Art drops him: he's "no longer modern...