Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jargon, like "post-modernism," means nothing definable. It merely points to a mood of eclectic revivalism, the assumption being that since progress in art is a myth, painting must perforce go crabwise, with many nostalgic glances backward. Under such a vague rubric, Chia looks a very apposite painter. Granted, neither he nor his fellow transavanguardisti get anywhere near the best German art of this generation, epitomized by the grim, magnificently redemptive visions of Anselm Kiefer, 38. Yet it is better to lack the tragic sense than to fake it. If an artist like Kiefer can uncover the sublimated debris...
Chia's originality is more notional than real. It depends on the unfamiliarity of the sources he adroitly quotes. How many people in America have heard of, let alone seen, the work of Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...
Miller amused his audience which filled the Dedley House JCR with a stream of bitingly satirical comments. His victions ranged from Harold Painter ("tight-assed writer though he is") to American attempts at serfous television (these ghastly, concerous miniseries") to the Osear ceremonies ("they should be censored, not celebrated...
...light changes. But another wall, a mural of floating patio furniture and suburban houses, is more than a bit obvious--it suggests a rip-off of the Rolling Stones' "Still Life" album cover. A third wall features a mural of haunting faces in the style of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo...
...Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Homeless collected $150 in House dining halls for the campaign, publicized the event, and distributed sponsor sheets to Harvard students, committee co-chairman Richard W. Painter '84 said yesterday...