Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though she follows nature, Wilson cannot paint in front of it, commits its contours to memory. She needs recollection in tranquillity. "When I'm out in the country, I'm overwhelmed by it," she says, and so she tackles her oils indoors. To get overwhelmed, she frequently goes to a carriage house amidst the potato fields on the seaside flats of Long Island: "I love the light out there, not just the sunny days, but also the luminous fogs...
...geometric surrealism of George Ortman (see color). Kelly's naked statements of form are bland on the surface; yet he clashes colors like cymbals to drive the viewer's eye into more tranquil corners. Al Held boldly ladles as many as 30 layers of plastic Liquitex paint onto his huge canvases to spell out alphabets in monumental bulk. Slowly, as if one had stared for minutes at any word until it became meaningless, the letters cease being acceptable symbols for language, appear fake and finally turn repulsive. The viewer is challenged and taunted. Are they letters...
...continue. The signs are encouraging: about four used cars are now being sold for every three new ones, and at least 13 million used cars will probably be sold in 1963. While used-car dealers can usually sell a "cream puff"-the car in good condition with a good paint job-they are doing so well now that many find little trouble in unloading the beat-up dogs. Boost from Below. The horse-trading system of selling new cars in the U.S. makes the used car a vital factor in new-car sales: in 74% of all new-car sales...
...result, wealthy Parisians let the paint peel from their houses, put, their Picassos in the attic, and claimed that their pedigreed poodles were used exclusively as watchdogs, which are taxexempt. (Le Fisc finally abandoned its hit-and-mistress methods this year.) When the inspectors started demanding taxpayers' financial records, artful Frenchmen from plumbers to landlords retaliated by insisting on cash for their services; the most fashionable doctor in Paris today would sooner vote for socialized medicine than accept a patient's check...
Exotic and Erotic. Throughout the history of art there have been such painters of intellect, but there have always been, too, those who paint only with passion. Had Delacroix not been the illegitimate son of the influential Talleyrand, he might not have had so easy a time getting his work shown, and even so, he shocked as well as awed. Battles intrigued him, massacres fascinated him, the combination of blood and splendor, of luxury and pain, seemed to inspire him. In his mind, he traveled over India and the Near East, filling it full of glittering jewels, gilded swords, muscular...