Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CARPENTER CENTER is a bastard of a building, a concrete monolith flanked on all sides by the peculiar combination of colonialism and conservatism that makes up the Harvard red-brick style. The department it houses is another sort of aberration, grudgingly giving credit for work with paper, brushes, paint and wood instead of work with words...
...works primarily at night, putting his amateur erotica onto canvas. With his new movie, La Jeune Fille Assassinée, scheduled for release in the U.S. in June, and his autobiography ready for publication in France, Vadim hopes to have time to start working by sunlight. "I like to paint, but at the moment I am not satisfied with what I do," he confesses. "I would love to have enough money to only paint for a few years...
...remained. The dozens of bolts that held Caro's Midday (1960) together are, for the most part, ornamental: a kind of decorative texture, like studs on a jacket. But by 1962, when he made Early One Morning, Caro was in full control of his sculptural means. Its red paint is so intense as to produce a vibration, a smarting optical dazzle. This lightness and disembodiment is reinforced by the forms; they touch and spring away from one another with a delectably airy insouciance. Caro's sculpture from now on would be a matter of touch and gesture rather...
...Wrong Turning. At age seven, when he was visiting an exhibition of Japanese paintings, he discovered the important secret about himself-"I am a born visualizer." Roughly in this order he began to paint in the style of Hokusai, Degas, Gauguin, Whistler and Matisse. By the time he reached Oxford, he knew he was not an artist; but he was irrevocably attached to the scale of the masterpiece-what a friend, Classicist Maurice Bowra, called "big stuff...
Needed Lift. What has made most of the difference is some 200 huge murals on the sides of once drab buildings. The idea of the wall paintings-which include bright abstract designs, realistic scenes of barrio life, mannered portraits of saints, Aztec warriors and campesino heroes-was conceived by the owners of a Chicano art gallery, John and Joe Gonzales, who felt that community art might give the barrio the lift it needed. They persuaded local artists to provide the inspiration, merchants the paint, fire fighters the scaffolds and residents the creativity necessary to carry out the project. The results...