Word: lifesize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The son of a strict Calvinist schoolteacher, Mondrian began his art studies in Holland. In the Guggenheim show, we first meet him around 1890, painting talented but not remarkable brown Netherlands landscapes and still lifes. Though Mondrian came to detest nature, the flat horizons punctuated by vertical poplars and crisscross...
But in Olga he picked exactly the wrong wife. She was pretty, inflexibly respectable and snobbish; she tried hard to reform Picasso's bohemian habits. His portraits of Olga when they were in love (32) are among the few completely insipid Picassos that exist. As the marriage disintegrated, the...
As a visitor approaches Darling's house today, he is confronted by a bewildering jumble of wild colors. He walks along a cement path adorned with Oriental mountains, and climbs a porch whose walls are filled with the birds, bears and skunks of Yellowstone National Park. He passes through...
Gabriel the painter is its central character, a loquacious and unrecognized artist who buys time to paint his apocalyptic visions by turning out cheap still lifes of Chianti bottles to order for a downtown trash shop. He is the stoned descendant of Joyce Carey's Gulley
The sea has always been an intoxicating experience for the artist. Tranquil and turbulent, uncontrollable and cruel, the ocean eludes him in a way that other scenes do not. Landscapes are firm and familiar; still lifes intimate. Portraits, by their very nature, are personal. But the seascape must represent the...