Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Media Men caught it all--live TV in color via satellite. What they failed to show behind the spray paint veneer was the burial of the old containment policy ideology...
...gave up on any more candidates, about half an hour before the polls closed, and walked back down to the McGovern headquarters. The green-eyed girl and I got recruited to paint a sign that was supposed to say something inspiring like "ON TO WISCONSIN," not something humorous like "MUSKIE SUCKS," the man told us. We succeeded in hiding it from the press, but it never did make national...
...nuances," says Diao. "I like to just lay a color down and leave it." The broad squeegee marks involve, for Diao, "the ends always reflecting the means-it's an idea that has become rather banalized by process art, but it's still an essential part of painting." The paintings are drenched in harsh and unappetizing color: the dark blue and bland bathroom-blue halves of Untitled, 1971, could almost go into a motel. But their relationships, as one edge of paint slides behind another "like theater curtains," are always controlled just this side of visual cacophony...
...attitude has been much influenced by reading the memoirs of an Oglala chief (Black Elk Speaks), landscape ought not to be separated from the way American Indians perceived nature: as an assembly not of dead earth and dumb plants, but of sentient presences. Some of this comes through in paintings like Star-Weaver, with their panoramic veils and zigzags of light, their flecks of paint that suggest flowers, mica deposits or dust: a soft immanence, vulnerable and pantheistic. Unfortunately, Wofford overworks his paintings. The light stiffens into crusts of inert pigment. But if the picture surface is sometimes cluttered...
...seen its tax base steadily eroded by a flight of relatively well-off whites and an influx of low-income blacks, who now constitute 70% of its 68,000 population. The city is desperately short of policemen, firemen, sanitation workers, teachers and public housing. "We are even begging for paint to fix up our high school," says Mayor James E. Williams. In order to pay its bills, the city began selling as many bonds as Illinois law permits. When that proved insufficient, it resorted to an annual charade. The city would borrow from banks to meet its payroll, then...