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...sheet copper; and a trio of bright blue, toylike sailing boats, one of them toppled as by a puff in the bathtub. There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime sort. The boats and sheds crop up again around the walls in big, lush paintings of bay shores and creeks, giving a mirroring effect: Are these paintings of real scenes, or of boat-sculptures and mock houses in a landscape, or what...
...exhibit's extraordinary range of colors, from the full lush tangerine to white that shines with the intensity of the noon sun on Himalayan snow, comes partly from Persia (where shades of muted pistachio and oleander pink originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...
...four Soviet writers jetted to the U.S. to join Shalnev. They checked into the Madison Hotel, one of capitalism's lush decampments. The White House crew asked them to lunch at another sophisticated watering hole in the Jefferson Hotel. There was much laughter and goodwill and joking about Gorbachev's cutting down Soviet vodka and, of course, a hearty round of Bloody Marys for the occasion...
...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...
...Bring You the Soul of America, I undertook a journalistic odyssey to determine the causes behind this obsession with all things green an lush (or smelly and insect-ridden for you urban purists...