Word: paintboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headmaster at Kassel's esteemed art academy took one look at the messy paintbox presented by the tousle-haired young applicant. "Nein," said he. After all, would a violinist treat his instrument that way? It was a bad moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
...year is 1970, and the first human being has just set foot on the moon. But what's this he's carrying? A paintbox, some drawing paper, a few garden tools, three kimonos and two bottles of Scotch. He shouts a soundless "Banzai!" into the wastes of the Sea of Serenity, dashes off a haiku or two, and quickly builds himself a Zen rock garden. The inscrutable Nipponese have beaten Russia and the U.S. to the moon...
...meticulous grilles of Piet Mondrian look as if anyone with a ruler and a paintbox could have done them. The delight they inspire as design has strongly influenced architecture and graphic advertising. If. upon familiarity, they now seem somewhat sterile, they were no mere gimmickry but the deadly serious result of a lifetime of intellectual search for the truth beyond the surface of reality. Seldom has an artist traveled a more complex route to achieve such striking simplicity...
...bronze statue that is in many ways as strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside his brother Theo...
...resembled his mother, the other his father, and modeled them in clay. "When I had these two portraits I proceeded to create this being. He was an active man. Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working on them a little at home. Except for his paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn...