Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner of the Prix de Rome at 21, Gussow learned in Europe "not how to paint, but how to love art. When I went over," he confides with some embarrassment, "I hadn't even heard of Botticelli." He stayed in Europe two years, devouring the museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends...
Four-Sided Collages. At one point Dine took up what has become known as "happenings." which are essentially ideas or feelings spontaneously acted out for an audience against a background of painted props. In one of his happenings called The Smiling Workman, Dine was seen writing ''I love what" in orange paint and "I'm doing" in blue. He then dumped the two cans of paint over his head to show "the feeling of a happy, compulsive painter, which I am." About the same time. Dine began experimenting with "environments," or "four-sided collages...
After that, Dine went through a purgative period: he did canvases that were all black or white except for some arbitrary mark or tiny design. "It was a renunciation," he says, "to get clean." Finally, he was ready for his present phase. One painting in his current show is called Red Suspenders. It consists of a pair of red suspenders that have been painted over with red paint and fixed against a red background. Says Artist Dine: "I like painting red and red." The suspenders are not "found objects." They were bought new for the painting, like a fresh tube...
...Necktie Is a Poem. The neckties-some of them are made of paint, while others are real ties painted over-are for Dine "remembered symbols that are important because they keep coming back. I used to write poems in the shape of neckties." All the paintings, whether of a shoe or hat or necktie, are labeled shoe or hat or necktie, because Dine likes to repeat his theme "over and over in your head like a textbook...
About a month after Hobbs first made contact with Thompson, the insurance company paid off the collector $189,000 for his losses. The FBI therefore turned over to the company the nine paintings that it recovered. Thompson can have them back by returning the $189,000 to the insurance company. But the paint-napers damaged their loot, and Thompson says the insurance company owes him $70,000 to cover the restoration. The company argues that $7,750 would be ample. At that, Thompson was better off than the lenders to last July's Cézanne show...