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...response to being riddled with holes, the mountain settles, like a house settling into its foundations - and because the rock is largely sandstone, it's not as rigid as, say, granite might be. Dig new tunnels, as the Murray Energy Corp. has been doing in a process called "remining," and you weaken the mountain still further. That's almost certainly what caused the original collapse (company president Robert Murray insisted it was an earthquake long after professional seismologists concluded it wasn...
...1970s, everybody just knew that painting was dead; real artists did installations or sawed houses in half. But Elizabeth Murray disagreed, creating big, shaped canvases in declamatory colors featuring cartoonish references to bodily form and household objects, like Morning Is Breaking, above. Influenced by Stuart Davis, Picasso and Miró, as well as the comics she loved as a kid, Murray blended high and low within her pieces and in their exhibition; two of her large mosaic murals adorn New York City subway stops. She was 66 and had lung cancer...
...That conflation of cartoon drawing and Surrealist biomorphism also gave Murray a brilliantly effective way to keep the human body in the picture without resorting to straight ahead representational painting. Anatomy is almost always there in her bouncy, blimpy forms, the ones that constantly invoke the swells and inlets of the body, tickling and jostling each other, or thrusting their fat bulges right at us. Even her curvy canvases are bodily, as fleshy and as bosomy as the plump goddesses in Rubens...
...With her declamatory colors and her inventory of shoes and spoons, children's toys and kitchen tables, she could remind you sometimes of Bonnard, the French homebody who found paradise in his own kitchen and an iridescent grotto in his wife's bath. For all her overflowing manner, Murray was what the French call an intimiste, a painter, like Bonnard or Vuillard or even Matisse, who takes the modest precincts of domestic life as a perfectly good place to make art. Then, if they can, they floodlight the room with whatever it is we mean by genius. This is what...
...more on the art world, and Elizabeth Murray, go to Looking Around...