Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...icon hanging straight, are coping--by varnishing the Dynamo with super-realism. Warhol handles mass-production by redistributing the colors of soup cans. Rauschenberg sublimates industrial waste by pasting it together, taking it up off the floor onto the walls. Steve Gildea, a photo-realist painter, places a grid on photographs, another grid on the surfaces to be painted, and then copies square by square...
Confrontations with B.U. teams do not always turn out the way Harvard fans might hope, but the hockey season hasn't started yet, so something positive (from a Crimson point of view) should come of today's showdown. Harvard has won seven of the eight grid contests between the two schools, the latest a 16-0 mugging two years...
...north and south ends of the field; the four other sections, paired on the east and west sides, were to be moved around as events required. The two pairs of east-west stands would be pulled in close to the playing field to frame the classic football grid, or pushed back and angled away to form a baseball diamond. The stands would also be reconfigured for concerts or other events...
...decade ago, when she first showed her work in the U.S., Riley's paintings were almost synonymous with visual assault. Black elliptical dots on a white ground, arranged in a grid but turning fractionally to set up an irritating instability of focus; parallel stripes whose wavy motion produced something akin to seasickness. Ever since her art-student days in London, Riley had been fascinated with patterns based on repeated units: the dots in Seurat's paintings, the balance of delicate strains between Mondrian's squares...
Arriving at their favorite sleeping spot in Paris one chilly night last month, a group of derelicts began settling down on a sidewalk grid that spewed hot air from the Métro underground. Suddenly a figure dressed in black appeared out of the darkness and handed each of them what looked like a large plastic bag. As the bewildered bums looked on, he attached the open end of one bag to the sidewalk air vent with small metal hooks. Voilà! It ballooned into a small, conical, one-man tent. Catching on quickly, the grateful men set up their...