Word: jasper
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...Jasper Johns, Richard Serra and Willem de KOoning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Rudenstine--Through August 9. Sackler Museum...
...Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil L. and Angelica Rudenstine--Through Aug. 9. Sackler Musuem. Tour given Friday Feb. 28 by Jim Cuno, director of Harvard Museums. Meet in museum lobby...
When viewing the later works of Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning in the current exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lateness itself assumes striking importance. In contrast to modernists recognized for one definitive style--like Barnett Newman and Pollock--Johns, Serra and de Kooning eschew a signature style, instead favoring a perpetually regenerating dynamism...
...Jasper John, Richard Serra...
Marden admired Jasper Johns -- a critic in the '70s brusquely but memorably wrote off an abstract twin-canvas picture by Marden as "Jasper's Painting with Two Balls, without the balls." And like Johns, he worked in a mixture of oil paint and wax, a false encaustic that gave his surfaces both substance and an inner glow, as if light were working its way through layers of slightly dusty translucency. You thought of it as skin. Marden was a brilliant colorist, in a very tuned-down way. His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks...