Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Returning from last spring's show to the current exhibit, a painting called Eighth Loosha typifies the best in Olitski's work. The canvas is a large rectangle, slightly higher than it is wide. In its center is an area of rich purple, built up from layers of sprayed acrylic. Where the surface is thin, the painting opens out around the separate flecks of paint; where the surface is thick, it fuses into a shiny surface priced by bubbles. Toward the edges, the color field lightens and meets a series of linear strokes of color that bound and direct...
FROM THE beginning of the takeover, the Wounded Knee incident was a reporter's paradise, Indians wearing war paint, U.S. marshals in baby blue jump suits, and demands centering around an 1868 treaty provided the national press with more copy than it needed. Long before the colorful descriptions became tedious and dull to the writers, the readers' attention waned...
...foreign traveler can literally get lost in the cultural war between the French-and Flemish-speaking peoples of Belgium. By law, all road signs give town names and distances in both languages. Local activists have the habit of obliterating the offending language with black paint. Retaliation in kind follows. A few years ago, while driving to a Brussels suburb, I came to a point where five roads met. There were five direction signs in both languages, all blacked out, leaving me or any other stranger to guess which one to take. Luckily, I spoke both French and Flemish...
...Flags. What is most striking about the city is its anachronistic look. There is a charming seediness about it, like a rundown old woman who meticulously cleans and presses her one and only dress. The crowded old French trolleys, with their paint peeling, still rattle about with a cheerful Gallic sound. Motorcycle cops with their tan uniforms use 1920s BMW machines...
...canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers resonate quietly with his own personal references to past loves and his statistics about man's efforts to manage the wilderness...