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...drama, a project Rosow describes as ieMy So Called Lifei meets the movie, eKids,ii focuses on the problems of self-doubt facing a young, female painter, Alex. As a character whose lack of image had made her remain outside the mainstream high school community, Alex is taken aback when the popular, iparty girls,i at her Los Angeles high school attempt to integrate her into their social strata. Thrown into the milieu is Sage, Alexis best friend, a savvy nymphomaniac, and Curtis, the cute new boy who has just left Colorado to escape the haunting memory of his fatheris...
While her narratives and plays of language are fascinating, many of her pieces are also visually spectacular. Admiration for the British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner and a good rummage through the basement of the Tate led her to the "Room for Margins" series. In Turner's time, no corners were cut and paintings were dutifully double-backed--two layers of canvas were used. Turning over the Turners, she placed the 200-year-old canvas backings under glass. Because a horizontal wooden support directly bisected the back of the canvas, a region of the backing was left less weathered, lighter...
...dropout, says he has been "making stuff" all his life. As a child, he assembled toys out of odds and ends, and as he grew older, he continued to tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships--"pictures about the future of life and the struggle...
Fact: Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) was a Dutch painter with a sketchy biography and exacting pictures that continue to astonish more than three centuries after his death. Fiction: an illiterate girl named Greit, 17, a servant in the Vermeer household, was the model for the artist's celebrated portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring...
...interest as "Landscape and Memory," has the virtue of being as close to exhaustive about its subject as one could hope. There is little psychological interpretation that Schama leaves undone, and little consequential biographical detail that he leaves unmentioned. _Rembrandt's Eyes_ will be a definitive work on the painter and his work, a mammoth book that takes on with grace the equally mammoth task of explaining what is behind the brooding eyes of Rembrandt's portraits...