Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that part of a metropolitan area surrounding a central city with a population of 50,000 or more. That includes some unexpected territory. Nassau County on Long Island is obviously suburban, reaching only 20 miles from Manhattan at its farthest point. Most Americans would also consider California's Marin County to be a suburb: many of its residents commute across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco from upper-bohemian Sausalito, sophisticated Mill Valley or nondescript San Rafael...
...strategic ploy) to act the salty curmudgeon when other artists were discussed. Most French painting he professed to ignore. "I saw a painting of a boat by Manet-to me it was a joke -to me Manet didn't know boats -didn't know the sea." Marin did, however, admire Boudin, the 19th century painter of seascapes and beach resorts-"He knew his boats." Indeed, there is more than a passing resemblance of spirit between Boudin's windswept promenades and sails leaning on empty horizons, and the magnificent succession of Maine seascapes for which Marin is best...
...until his return to New York and his marriage to Marie Jane Hughes that Marin took possession of his freedom as a painter. The Manhattan watercolors of 1911-13, with their thrust, chop and bustle of tower, facade and street, are a peculiarly American reaction to that delight in the tempos of urban life that, at the same moment, had seized the Cubists in Paris and the Futurists in Italy. It was a web of movement, great and small, that he would pursue for the rest of his career, and he described it with his usual laconic concreteness. "In life...
Painted Music. It was in this observation that Marin's modernity lay. He saw nature not as a collection of objects in a neutral space, but as a field of interacting energies, a seamless pattern of events...
...wave rises in the Maine sea and its sharp volume displaces air; Marin painted the wind as visibly as he drew the belly of a sail or the prow of a boat. Such abstraction as went on in his paintings was solely designed to clarify these clashings and peakings of force and substance, to turn it all into paint-"paint wave a'breaking on paint shore." He had instinctively hit upon the same vision of nature that produced the interlocking solidity of Cubist space, but he applied it to landscape in a fluid and dynamic way that bore very...