Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years before he died in 1953 at the age of 83, John Marin was voted "the greatest living American painter" by a poll of critics and museum men. What the cranky, salt-bitten old Yankee thought of this honor is uncertain. Marin loathed the idea that art should become a monument, freezing its maker in the pose of a culture hero. "Art is not great," he once scribbled in that looping hand with which he covered innumerable scraps of paper with misspelled, queerly punctuated aphorisms. "Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly...
...event, Marin's immediate posterity did not treat him kindly, and his reputation slipped after his death. The U.S. public was, understandably perhaps, far more interested in the New York School, which had rewritten the terms of international art, than in Marin, who had not. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marin's birth in 1870, the Los Angeles County Museum has assembled a full-dress retrospective of his work (more than 150 oils, watercolors and drawings), which opens this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It offers fresh insights on this persistently underrated artist...
Written Paint. With hindsight, it is difficult to look at the broad, loosely brushed planes of primary color in Marin's watercolor of 1921, Red and Green and Blue-Autumn, without thinking of Philip Guston or Hans Hofmann; and Marin's Cape Split. Maine, with its fuzzy-edged, vibrating and organic shapes held together by tense flicks of line, equally suggests Gorky or the early De Kooning. Near the end of his life, Marin was almost literally writing the paint onto his canvases -his own title for a 1950 oil was The Written Sea-with an immediacy...
...judicious editing it would be easy to turn Marin into a founding father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White Waves on Sand, Maine, the arches and pylons of Brooklyn Bridge, the scud and sough of an Atlantic sou'wester-was obdurate and irreducible for Marin, and had always to be returned to, loved, and above all, declared...
Davis is being held without bail in California for allegedly buying the guns used in the killing of Judge Harold J. Haley and three other persons last August 7. The deaths occurred in a gun battle following the disruption of a trial in the Marin County courthouse...