Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthropologists want to use the Indian for study, and some people use him in order to satisfy their own charitable inclinations by giving him old clothes. We are regarded as unclaimed land, free to be used to the paint of promiscuity," he said...
Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of the same concerns that preoccupied the new realists of the 1960s. One Dine's most successful "combines" is a 1962 work in which an actual lawnmower is mounted in front of the canvas. Green paint clings to the blades like bits of fresh-cut grass, while the handle guides...
...Dine saw an advertisement for a bathrobe in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he explains, "but when I saw it, it looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait (Serape). Before the painted canvas, he hung wire plumb lines, which cast shadows on the bathrobes and thus give them a curious kind of life. This tense and intentional counterpoint between hard and soft materials, object and paint, reality and illusion can be traced through virtually all of his works...
...heart, an image loaded with visual and literary connotations. In its repetition of the image and its lyric use of warm, watery colors, Rome Hearts can be read as a kind of tone poem. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Dine has also published a volume of his poetry. Like his paintings, his poems are personal, full of discovery, the outpourings of an artist who seems to need to share his joy with the world. "I want to express myself with anything I can get my hands on," he says. "Whether it is words or shoes or paint...
...Reed, Ryder diversified by buying a large stationery wholesaler, a wallpaper company, a paint firm and a company serving the do-it-yourself market. Under Ryder, Reed's sales have climbed from $307 million to $677 million last year, and profits have doubled to $22 million. Now Ryder's primary job will be to cut the publishing company's losses and mesh the disparate parts of the sprawling enterprise. Cudlipp will remain as a deputy chairman and editorial director. "There will be editorial freedom," says Ryder, "but if somebody goes berserk and the profits of the group...