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...goat population from the small island of San Clemente, located off the coast of Southern California, that it uses for target practice. The reason, according to the Navy, was that the goats were nibbling their way through the island's four endangered plants (the bushmallow, broom, larkspur and paintbrush...
Tools occupy a special place in Dine's gallery of symbols, and several prints of paintbrushes, hammers, scissors and other assorted household implements, lovingly described by the artist, are displayed. The son and grandson of hardware store owners, Dine spent long hours "daydreaming amongst objects of affection." His wrenches and tinsnips and an autobiographical series of bathrobes are not the public icons of Pop art but personal, private emblems imbued with witty, sly personalities. "I'm concerned with interiors when I use objects," Dine has said, "I see them as a vocabulary of feelings..." Dine often reworks a plate, taking...
Piano and Paintbrush. After arriving in the U.S. in 1953 with his own folk-dance company, Holder spent two years as a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. He has choreographed works for the Alvin Ailey company and the Dance Theater of Harlem. His paintings, mostly lush impressionist nudes, hang in the Corcoran Gallery, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and the homes of, among others, William Buckley and Barbara Walters. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway (the 1957 revival of Waiting for Godot) and in films (Live and Let Die, Doctor Dolittle). He is the author...
...attributes his multiplicity of interests to his father, a "salesman with brains" in Port-of-Spain who believed that "if you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example, every Trinidadian...
...PAINTER assembled his easel in the resonant cranny of a shop's front door at Harvard Square, the wet thud of soused camel's hair as his paintbrush hit the canvas propped on its tripod probably wouldn't pull a crowd. Unlike musicians or actors, someone who makes strictly visual art tends to go at it alone. It is hard to concoct a performance with audience appeal while etching acid into copper plate, sculpting clay--or daubing paint on canvas. But in the long run, interaction with an audience is just as important to the visual artist...