Word: hackwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done for Pozzo, who had a thing about elephants). And one painting from San Francisco's De Young Museum, The Adoration of the Golden Calf, does not survive comparison; it is clearly not by Poussin at all, though it shows how fanatically others imitated...
...double acts the Met does so well, in cahoots with the Musee du Louvre in Paris, we have a show of 71 paintings organized by Jeannine Baticle of the Louvre. From this panoramic exposure a new Zurbaran emerges -- both stronger and weaker, more intense and yet more prone to hackwork, than one had imagined...
...backbone of this album--whether he's bashing out thickly fuzzed Heavy Metal riffs or breaking through the rhythm section with wildly distorted psychedelia. Meanwhile, drummer Grant Hart--who wrote many of the songs on the album--keeps things going, especially when Mould's guitar work ossifies into hackwork...
...failed three times to be accepted by the main art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Until his early 30s, nothing he made was noted, and he simply contributed his anonymous efforts to the studios of other sculptors, patinating, chasing, designing decorative masks-the laborious hackwork of an age of commemorative sculpture. He was in his late 30s before he managed to get a major sculpture on public exhibit in France (The Age of Bronze). If ever a great artist lived out the conventional trajectory from obscurity through unpopularity and thence to notoriety and patriarchal fame...
Isaac is neither alarmed nor excommunicated; he is merely ignored. To survive he does journalistic hackwork; to amuse himself, he records the conversation of characters who, 40 years later, seem to have just stepped from a kosher cafeteria. A divorcee reduces world conflict to a domestic squabble: "I made the same mistake as our allies are making...