Word: marination
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...were rather proud to have Artist John Marin [Feb. 22] among us as a resident of Cliffside Park, N.J., when I was a roving reporter for the Palisadian back in the days of Harry Truman...
...period, I was assigned to John Marin and came back to our grubby little office rather dazed by what I had seen in the no-nonsense studio and by the personality of the artist. I was particularly impressed by the fact that this immensely gifted man made his own frames and took pleasure doing it. A year later, when Marin was cited "the greatest living" and so forth, I did the inevitable followup...
...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...
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...