Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE WAS a New York painter named Ad Reinhardt who, before his death, had advanced his art to such a point that he was painting canvases that were--well, frankly, they were entirely black. They looked as if Reinhardt had given them a couple of swipes with a paint roller and called it a day. Some critics maintained that the discerning eye could pick out subtle variations from painting to painting--in the play of tone underneath the black, or in the direction of Reinhardt's brushstrokes--but the fact remained that to the masses, aside from...
...liberal Fisher left off being a student in 1944 when he was drafted, and he says there was no question as to whether he would serve. He went to war, even if all that meant was scraping paint and filing charts as assistant to the navigator on a wooden Navy sub-chaser that chugged slowly across the Pacific and into Hawaii at the end of the war. He has served his country since, and more actively, as assistant general counsel to the Far East mission of AID and deputy director of AID's Colombian mission. In both areas, he channeled...
...that takes years of petitioning. Vasectomy bat mitzvahs every male. There is one unpaved area in the city: the Green, a glass walled lawn with trees The longest lines in the city form every day to look in at it. Living quarters are huge sleeping halls marked off with paint into individual spaces eight feet by twelve feet is the maximum allowable by law for single persons...
...Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Line, and Guston is a pleasant exception to the rule. These five painters have been labeled Abstract Impressionists because they broke with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock, for example, is best known for paintings made by squirting paint out of tubes directly onto a canvas on the floor. For him, the act of releasing paint itself constitutes a valid artistic statement...
Abstract Impressionists have also been called Action Painters because they place so much emphasis on the brush and pen stroke itself. In fact, Jackson Pollock once explained his art by saying, "The source of my painting is the unconscious," and his works, some of which have been made with sticks and syringes. Indicate that he is more concerned with drips and squirts of paint than with the organization of his canvas and the control of his lines. The Action Painting trend peaked around 1950; afterwards artists returned to concrete images and forms. This exhibition seems to help explain...