Word: owl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place. But as in painting you make such a mess, I prefer to live in the mess with the memories and the damage." In photographs of the artist in his studio, we see the most famous English painter of his generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian nose into the mask of a pudgy child surrounded by a volcanic sludge of rubbish: the walls daubed with paint, the tables and floor buried under a dune of exhausted tubes, boxes, crumpled photographs, muck. These, so to speak, are the lineaments of gratified desire...
...still a close friend: "He was quite British in his ways, though he had treasured his Middle Western accent. He was a mixture of pixiness and earnestness, very much at home in Italian literature, especially Dante, as well as the fine points of handicapping horses. He was an owl; he stayed up late, talking, reading or playing poker...
...epee bouts saw six different Crimson fencers in action Matt Simmons was very strong in winning both of his bouts, as was Sam Anderson in taking his two contests John Hershield also took two bouts from his Owl opponents...
...currently at the Aberbach Gallery, are the works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away. What does it mean? Perhaps that these phantasms exist, within any hospital's clutching walls, even when life goes on routinely on the outside...
...presence of other men pervades the place. Benjamin Franklin, looking like a benevolent old owl, watches from one wall. He was painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1785 when he came home after almost ten years in France. Peale also did the oil of George Washington that is over the mantel...