Word: lifesize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But provincial beginnings often confer a certain intensity on painters. The eye becomes obsessive, prehensile. Sanchez Cotán was a cloistered monk who never went outside Spain-but his Bodegon of vegetables (see color overleaf) is one of the most remarkable still-lifes ever painted. Each form-the ribbed...
It is, of course, impossible to find 16 artists who could represent the full range of style and preoccupation in European art, so Tuchman has restricted his choice mainly to figurative paintings by "loners"-artists who, for one reason or another, have not closely identified themselves with particular groups or...
Nobody else, for instance, can bring off the mixture of lavish Matissean col or, literary irony and veiled narrative - like disconnected stills from a Fritz Lang film - from which R.B. Kitaj, in such works as Malta (1974), constructs a new form of history-painting. There is no American equivalent to...
He says that he's been seriously disillusioned in his lifes by an unsuccessful marriage, by the deterioration of cities in this country, by antiquated prison systems that have destroyed too many people he knows (which led him to be the first performer to play for the inmates on Death...
When the first photographers aspired to art in the 19th century, they were profoundly disturbed by the camera's sharp and indiscriminating eye. As a result, they tried to make photographs that resembled paintings. Using classical, posed subject matter (half-draped nudes by a mountain stream and the like), they...