Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want the logic of color," says the artist, "to be the structure of my paintings, to open them up, to make them expand and breathe. I want my paintings to come out of color and not drawing. I just roll out the canvas and begin and let it grow." Lately, Olitski has been rolling out a lot of canvas. He is preparing for three one-man shows, to be held this summer and fall in London, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition, his work will be shown later this month at West Germany's prestigious Dokumenta...
...Russian-born, Brooklyn-raised painter has been enamored of abstraction ever since his G.I. bill studies in Paris. When he first attracted national attention in 1961 by winning an award at Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary...
...group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...
...increase in pay and fringes, to $8.07 an hour, while striking bricklayers demanded a 42% raise, to $9.02. Despite a decade-old pledge by the AFL-CIO to end make-work practices in construction, union locals are still getting away with restrictions on such labor-saving devices as paint sprayers and power saws and nailers. In Los Angeles, builders who use air compressors pay an operating engineer $5.59 an hour to do nothing but turn the machine...
...friends Georges Braque and Henri Matisse, Van Dongen rebelled against 19th century impressionism, filling his canvases with slashing brush strokes and raucous colors that enraged critics but fascinated gallery goers; and while some of the other Fauves went on to cubism, Van Dongen settled for becoming court painter ("I paint the women slimmer and their jewels fatter") for the international set, turning out glittering portraits of such luminaries as the Aga Khan and King Leopold of Belgium...