Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though his constructions have had the brittle, balanced look of a Buck Rogers chessboard, recently Ortman has been going backward. He builds painting around a detailed formal analysis of past masters. He has broken down Gauguin's triptych Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Matisse's Piano Lesson, Botticelli's Allegory of Spring. Says he: "I try to find the actual construction of the painting with geometrical symbols. My subject matter is paint. Someone told me that art comes from art; I took it literally...
...Angeles Entrepreneur Norton Simon, a self-made millionaire, has few rivals among U.S. businessmen in the variety of his financial interests. They spread from his $400 million-a-year Hunt Foods & Industries through steel, salad oil, matches, paint and publishing. Yet Simon seldom stops in his search for new horizons, and last week he moved deftly in two widely different directions...
...impatient brush of a young Italian new realist whips enamel paint around melanges of brown wrapping paper and canvas, laying waste a work of art with the gusto of a wild wind assailing a wall plastered with posters. Through...
Also widely admired was "Wild Dream," designed by Joe Wilhelm of San Jose Calif. With an aluminum body and chassis of rectangular tubing, 'it has a Corvette engine, the popular "California tilt" (front end lower than rear), and is finished in purple metal-flake acrylic paint...
Porter, 56, Harvard-trained art historian, critic and poet, has lived quite comfortably alongside abstraction, profiting from its lessons although he was obscured by its critical acclaim. A major influence on his art was Willem de Kooning, who urged him to paint the whole of his canvas rather than isolated images. Porter does, spreading across his works languid, idyllic colors that seem to be dreams of bygone childhood...