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DIED. AGNES MARTIN, 92, reclusive abstract painter whose spare yet soulful geometric grids strove to induce nothing grander than, in her words, "a little happiness [and] tranquillity"; in Taos, N.M. Martin's work was sometimes linked to Minimalism, but she insisted it was more a product of Expressionism and certainly "not cool." She won acclaim in the late 1950s for her clean lines, awash in grays or muted pastels, then stopped painting for seven years. Influenced by Buddhism and the colors and shapes of New Mexico, she eventually resumed creating work that can now be seen in collections from...
DIED. ED PASCHKE, 65, provocative Chicago painter whose clashing neon colors and freakish-looking subjects invigorated Pop Art; of heart failure; in Chicago. Basing much of his work on photographs and TV images, he created layered portraits of strippers, professional wrestlers and other, less easily categorized specimens, and later painted simulated electronic images of Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln. Jeff Koons, one of his students, likened Paschke's paintings to drugs, saying, "They affect you neurologically...
Carmel's artistic community is canvas-shredding mad. "The art galleries bring a lot of people to town. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg," says Linda Miller, who runs a gallery with her husband Jim, a painter, on Ocean Avenue, the city's main drag. Mayor Sue McCloud is unmoved. "We need a more diverse economy," she says...
...only out of ancient myth and American pop culture but also from de Kooning's personal supply of awe and anger. As Stevens and Swan make clear, throughout his life his dealings with women were heedless and narcissistic. Though he never divorced his wife Elaine--like him a painter and heavy drinker who slept around with abandon--he fathered a child by another woman, set up the occasional household with still others and carried on countless affairs. At one point he taught each of his girlfriends to ring his studio doorbell in a different way so he could tell which...
...self-declared pioneer of "floating-world pictures," or ukiyo-e, was painter Okumura Masanobu, and the show has seven of his best. Woman Turning Around (1688-1704), for instance, exudes spontaneity, elegance as well as the faint air of melancholy that is typical of ukiyo-e?a reminder that pleasure is often best when bittersweet. Soon, however, the public wanted not just emotion but cheap, portable souvenirs of their visits to the pleasure pits?even if they lacked the nerve to actually enter. To the occasion rose the wood-block printmaking business. At first its images were mainly black...