Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works in broad strokes, so swiftly that she can finish even a group portrait within a couple of hours. She relies almost as much on pure intuition in portraits as in her abstract expressionist work. "If I paint fast, the painting becomes unconscious, almost as if someone else was doing the painting and I the manual labor...
...which is essentially a mild, unrebellious comment on the commonplace made by picturing it without any pretense of taste or orthodox technical skill. It is nothing new to transform nonart materials into works of art; but seldom have artists been so willing to forgo the transforming. They may paint a soup can and enlarge or repeat it; but the can remains a can, designed by the Campbell Soup Co. In defense, Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann says, "Objects like Coke bottles have powers. Brand products are here to stay." Ten, 20 or 50 years ago, any artist would have been snubbed...
James Rosenquist, 29, used to paint billboards, where he found that "sometimes things get so close that they disappear, and only the strength of the arabesque is left." In Lines, for instance, the background is a woman's face over which swirl images that might be in her mind. Rosenquist uses space "to bring about mystery," and however billboardlike his technique, the mystery is there...
Lichtenstein should ask it of himself more often, and so should Jim Dine, 27. When Dine builds up paint into outsize neckties, suspenders or coats, he says he is after "a personal statement, memories. I am interested in things that have happened and have to be recorded." Just what the urgency of such memories is is hard to figure out, but Dine switches projects with every season. He has made a painting out of a green-spattered lawnmower, has exhibited in Europe a whole series of tools. He has also produced bathrooms...
...Moby Dick, he and I are juggling the same ingredients: the single protagonist, the mysterious adversary, the all-powerful elements." Nolan regards these themes as obsessions, and he is glad to be obsessed. Every artist is bombarded by a chaos of images and clues about what to paint; the obsessions are "in a sense a net to trap these clues...