Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every once in a while (schedules are not rigid in the South Pacific), the natives of Tanna island daub their chests with red paint to spell out the letters U.S.A. Then, equipped with bamboo poles to symbolize rifles, they march down to the shores of the Pacific to await the arrival of John Frum. This godlike figure, whose origin is shrouded in mystery, is a legendary black cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is expected to reappear from the surf some day with all the Jeeps and chewing gum and other marvels that G.I.s brought to the New Hebrides during...
...legends that has grown out of the life of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes has a servant asking him: "Why do you paint these barbarities that men commit?" To this Goya answered: "To tell men forever that they should not be barbarians...
...paint a person I practically go to bed with him," declared Artist Jamie Wyeth. "I just stay with a person; I follow him around for days." Which is not lo say that the son of Artist Andrew Wyeth and grandson of Illustrator N.C. Wyeth ignores other subjects. At Wyeth's second one-man show in New York last week, many of the portraits presented at the Coe Kerr Gallery were of animals. Referring to his painting, Pig, Wyeth observed: "Pigs are very moody animals who have great depressions. In fact, a guy who raises pigs told...
This simple addition does indeed sound elementary. But what the description leaves out is Bill's acute sense of color relationships and the cool, meticulous perfection of the skin of paint-a skin that makes the epidermis of Mondrian's geometrical abstracts seem coarse by comparison. In his exquisite judgment of value and hue, Max Bill is one of the great colorists in modern...
Crafted Skin. The show consists of Liberman's abstract paintings on the motif of a circle, done between 1950 and 1961. It is old work and put there to make an argument. Liberman, by and large, was left out of the accounts of New York art in the '50s; the very look of his paintings tells why. Rather than the complicated, relational colors of much abstract expressionism, Liberman used plain primaries. Instead of free drawing, he used ruler and compasses. Rather than drips and splashy brushwork, he went in for the most even and perfectly crafted skin...