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Marden admired Jasper Johns -- a critic in the '70s brusquely but memorably wrote off an abstract twin-canvas picture by Marden as "Jasper's Painting with Two Balls, without the balls." And like Johns, he worked in a mixture of oil paint and wax, a false encaustic that gave his surfaces both substance and an inner glow, as if light were working its way through layers of slightly dusty translucency. You thought of it as skin. Marden was a brilliant colorist, in a very tuned-down way. His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks...
...were curious about what "soft sculpture" really entails, so we called Christine K. Lee '93, one of the project's organizers. The soft sculptors will paint on hundreds of T-shirts and arrange them in either "a pile on the steps of Lamont," or "string them around a tree." Everyone who passes by the spectacle may take one of the shirts, thereby changing the size of the pile and contributing to what Lee calls an "evolving work of art." This project, remember, got four hundred dollars...
...relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have always put the food of their time in their still lifes, whether a jamon serrano by Velazquez or a baguette by Manet, and with Thiebaud the formal qualities of the paint now seem far more engaging than its reference to serial...
...Walls Around Us is segmented into nine chapters covering all necessary information from "how to make your paint stick" to how to do your own electrical wiring ("and when to get someone else to do it"). Yet, even in these "techy" passages, Owen stays interested and interesting. He explores the Keeler & Long paint factory to find our how paint is made, where porcelian blocks and round stones whine and grind pigments which pour into thousand-gallon mixers, and he visits the first American Sawmill, (Jamestown, 1625) to learn about the origins of lumber...
...paint the following picture in your mind: insects roaming through a puddle of green slime at the foot of my shower...