Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alfred H. Barr Jr., D.F.A., director of collections, the Museum of Modern...
...artists turn up their noses at color reproductions of their works. Most, like Andrew Wyeth, whose Christina's World in 1966 sold 7,000 copies at $7.50 each in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, feel that color copies are a testament to the public's love of their work, accept the fact that U.S. art presses alone roll off an estimated 350 million prints "suitable for framing" each year. But hardly any artist professes himself completely pleased with the results, since most color reproductions leave much to be desired. Offset lithography, the commonest technique used...
...Lichtenstein's satiric cast overlooked pop itself. His Pistol, a banner made of felt, pokes fun at his fellow-cultists' ideals. Says he: "It is an exaggeration of a menacing, dangerous painting, a cliché describing modern painting done to an excessive degree, a play on the idea of a painting having a strong presence...
Ripe for Ribbing. In his early period, Lichtenstein was a latter-day abstract expressionist. When he turned to subject matter, he happened on comic strips, he explains, "because of their anti-artistic image and because they are such a modern subject." He took over the whole cartoon vocabulary, including printers' Benday dots (originally suggested to him by the exaggerated dots on a bubble-gum wrapper), primary Magna colors, heavy, black-outlined forms. "I like taking a discredited subject and putting it into a new unity," Lichtenstein says (currently he is working with 1930s pseudo-Bauhaus modern), "I was serious...
...exuberance, so timelessly secure in its traditional commencement ceremonies as a college campus in June. Last week, as alumni gathered on campuses across the nation for reunions and beaming parents strolled shaded walks with newly graduated sons, proud leaders of academe pointed to glistening new science buildings and plushly modern dormitories, talked glowingly of new plans, programs, projects. But this appearance of comfortable affluence is largely deceptive. Behind the impressive fagades of most private universities and colleges there is a deep concern. They are in grave financial trouble, and many are searching frantically to close a dollar gap that threatens...