Word: modernists
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...phase of his work-the so-called pittura metafisica-lasted until about 1918. Thereafter, De Chirico changed. He wanted to become, and almost succeeded in becoming, a classicist. He imagined himself to be the heir of Titian. Rejected by the French avantgarde, he struck back with disputatious critiques of modernist degeneracy; for the next 60 years of his life, he remained an obdurate though not very skillful academic painter. He even took to signing his work Pictor Optimus (the best painter). The sheer scale of his failure-if that is the word for it-is almost as fascinating...
...Hurley St playground floor is a straightforward, realistic work less provocative to the passerby than like the 1976 wind sculpture in Central Square, which was designed and built by local artist under the auspices of the arts council. But despite its modernist style the Central Square sculptures has received nothing but praise from residents, says John Chandler, a staffer at the arts council. "I think most people are attracted and intrigued by it," says Central Square resident Judy R. Stovell...
...superfluous to say that Pollock is one of the legends of modern art. American culture never got over its surprise at producing him; fairly or not, he remains the prototypical American modernist, the one who not only "broke the ice"-in the generous words of his colleague Willem de Kooning-but set a canon of intensity for generations to come. The sad fact seems to be that no younger American artist, in the 25 years since his death, has quite got past Pollock's achievement. His work was mined and sifted by later artists as though he were...
...work itself, are hard to catch in words. One can easily say what the paintings are not. They do not tell stories They do not point to any kind of action "out there." They tell us nothing about Morandi the man. They are not dramatic, colorful or "modernist" in any doctrinaire way. And though they are saturated in historical awareness, they are unlike most still lifes that were done before them...
...circumscribing, pays its respects to Degas, as does the broken, emphatic texture of the pastel, sometimes built up to a thick coat of peacock-hued dust. There is nothing theoretical about these drawings, no "as if-such as one might expect from an artist turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried...