Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Guggenheim is now holding a retrospective of the comic-strip-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein, and the saggy, baggy sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney Museum, not to be outdone, will exhibit another major Pop artist, Jim Dine, in February...
...shock value wears off, it is easier to make judgments. The thin, acrid sensibility of Andy Warhol remains naggingly insistent, an idiosyncratic talent that can be derided but not dismissed. Lichtenstein's works are admired for their sharp elegance, Rosenquist's for their painterly quality, Jim Dine's for their intimacy. But each seems to have settled into the styles established by his own success. The one among them who seems to have continuously moved into progressively new and different areas, blithely leaving his successes behind him, is Claes Oldenburg...
Oldenburg moved to New York, where he met Artists Jim Dine and Allan Kaprow, who were busy inventing the world's first "happenings." Soon Oldenburg was staging happenings too, and got married to a pretty artists' model, Pat Muschinski. The world of objects-food, toys, bric-a-brac-blazed all around him ia neighborhood stores. Claes started to reproduce them in burlap or muslin dipped in plaster and painted with all the romantic energy of Abstract Expressionism. "I wanted to extend color to three-dimensioned form," he says, "to make paint tangible and edible...
Since then, Arts and Letters has romped through the season as blithely as a stud in pasture. He won impressive victories in some rugged stakes races, including the Travers, Metropolitan Mile and Jim Dandy Mile. He recently returned to New York's Belmont Park and, with Baeza again in the saddle, swept to a two-length win over No-double in the $106,000 Woodward Stakes. His time: 2 min. 1 sec., a scant second off the track record set by Kelso in 1961. That triumph also brought his 1969 earnings to $486,574, which placed the tough little...
...Belle Starr, "Queen of the Outlaws." Belle Starr was successively the girlfriend of Cole Younger, Jim Reed, Sam Starr, Blue Duck, John Middleton, Jack Spaniard, Jim French, and Jim July, all of whom met violent deaths. Belle was killed by a blast of buckshot...