Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Embalmed with Paint. The detailed, stroked, sandpapered, flecked surface of Wyeth's tempera painting - "weaving" is his own word for it -conveys an obsessive sense of scrutiny. "I really like tempera because it has a cocoon-like feeling of dry lostness-almost a lonely feeling. There's something incredibly lasting about the material, like an Egyptian mummy, a marvelous beehive or hornet's nest." Paint embalms the objects on Wyeth's cold-comfort farms; it stresses their distance from one another and from the eye. Combined with his fondness for large legible shapes and photographic cropping...
Alex Katz, Recent Prints Katz, whose placid moose hangs at the Fogg these days, prints his impression of Maine and his family in quiet blocks of muted color. Not as confident in this medium as he is in paint, Katz restrains innovation--the prints are well-executed but their composure and balance rules out excitement...
...oversized targets. Jimmy Carter announced during the Democratic Convention that the Lord would make his preference for running mate known to Carter in a vision, spoofs Mark Russell, and Walter Mondale "snuck into Carter's bedroom at 3 o'clock in the morning covered with luminous paint." The Minnesota Senator, who complains that people used to think Mondale was "a little town near Pasadena," said recently that "if Ford is going to talk to us about jobs, inflation and housing, then we ought to have Idi Amin come over here and talk to us about airport security." Republican...
...would expect Church, the most spectacular practitioner of the 19th century sublime, to paint as downright a piece of patriotic kitsch as Our Banner in the Sky, where a gaunt tree and a streaky sunset compose themselves into a double image of Old Glory streaming from its pole...
Sinister Sensuality. Watkins is more interested in establishing the sensual details of Munch's painting: the sound of a brush dashing paint, a blade peeling pigment off a canvas. Munch's formative affair with a married woman (Gro Fraas) is here devoid of dramatics. Watkins wants us to absorb the colors and emotions of the affair direct from Munch's work, particularly from one, finished in 1893 and full of sinister sensuality, showing a woman leaning close over a man. The painting is titled Vampire. The director dwells on the haunted canvases with a sort of driven...