Word: layered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all, Winters' paintings are not illustrations, either of things or states of mind. They are rather too indefinite and physically aggressive for that. The heavy paint erodes the form; it is the foe of exact morphology, and it works against clear, taxonomic definition. This builds a layer of frustration into the image: it seems perverse to take objects that are only, or mainly, of scientific interest and handle them in a way so calculated to frustrate scientific curiosity. The dandy's thumbprint lies lightly on this show, a sign that both Johns and Marcel Duchamp have been there before...
After seven months and about $5 million, Briggs has been transformed from a decaying structure full of cramped singles, leaky ceilings, and flaking walls, to suites with private bathrooms, skylights and a fresh layer of paint...
Except for one failure with quenelles ("I got the water too hot") and another with a seven-layer torte ("the texture was wrong"), everything she set a hand to precisely matched its published image. The praise from dinner guests was heady, very heady...
...This layer of society is relatively new to Avedon's camera, which is more commonly trained upon Nastassja Kinski's pout and Brooke Shields' rump. He has spent more than three decades at the pinnacle of fashion photography. But at the same time, he has perfected a mordant style of portraiture that mocks the earthly vanity his fashion shots glorify. The fixtures of that style are familiar: unsmiling figures shot in sharp focus against a plain white background. (Avedon started his career taking identity-card shots for the Merchant Marine.) The results can be pitiless. With every wrinkle...
...below the bottom of the hole. On top of this virtually impermeable bed, workmen are placing a plastic liner to be topped by a plastic-grid system that will collect and direct any seepage into a series of sump pumps. Above the grid will be another plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic. A plumbing system will pump rainwater out of the area. Nearby, the company is spending $1.6 million to improve its large surface collection tanks, made of concrete lined with epoxy, that receive waste from steel-processing plants. New fiber-glass liners are being placed...