Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Edward Wolff, New York University}]TIME Graphic by Steve...
...CREDIT: TIME Graphic by Steve Hart...
Sure, we can all breathe a little easier now, but it's little consolation to those of us who have to spend a fair part of our week trying to capture our president-elect on paper and shoehorn him into some snappy piece of graphic satire. Especially those of us who hope to making a living doing this in about half a year's time...
Perot's inexpensively produced ads -- usually featuring the candidate with a pointer and a set of charts -- were easy to make fun of. They were frequently sloppy: a Perot graphic in one referred to the "Forbes 500" instead of the Fortune 500. They used hokey, pseudojournalistic techniques: an interviewer in a pair of biographical ads set up the candidate with questions like "Ross, can you remember the first time that you spoke and people paid attention to what you said?" Often they were downright wacky. In his election-eve effort, Chicken Feathers, Deep Voodoo and the American Dream, Perot scoffed...
This show provides plenty of evidence of Basquiat's graphic industry, but not much that he ever tried to deal with the real world through drawing. He had no idea how to discipline himself into making a creative accord between its forms and the marks on paper or canvas. He just scribbled and jotted, picking up stylistic pointers from older artists he admired, among them Cy Twombly and Jean Dubuffet. He could only rehearse his own stereotypes, his pictorial nouns for "head" or "body," over and over again...