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...wonder connoisseurs call it the museum lover's museum. The Madrid structure has works by virtually every consequential artist, from the medieval masters to the Italian, Flemish and Dutch schools to Spain's most prominent painter, Picasso, whose monumental Guernica has come home after nearly 50 years of exile...
...Well, I started my career as a painter and an art historian. Painting is undersung-99% of all films have a literary base. Film should have more confidence in itself; it should rely on other art forms. All these art forms are related. What I would like to do is regard cinema as a visual meeting with the audience. In a way it isn't. It relies too much on soundtrack, dialogue, story. Continuity of painting through and into cinema is important. You need an attitude of composition, color coding, symbols and metaphors. Cinema is going...
...Four Corners consisted of emergency repairs: some homes were in such poor shape there was no hope of restoration, so new ones were trucked in from nearby communities. Subsequent chores included rewiring, plumbing or simply applying a fresh coat of paint, which is generally done by Four Corners' star painter, Thelma Collins. The women raise money through bake sales, barbecue dinners, fish fries and a TV raffle that netted $1,345. All money is deposited in an account at Iberia Savings Bank, which, along with Southern Mutual and in conjunction with the Federal Affordable Housing Program, has set aside...
...their lessons into line with one's instincts. The artist who does this may be called mature. So with Marden, who with this show of huge, pale canvases covered with a loose tracery of inky line has managed at last to reconcile his inheritance as a late modern American painter -- chiefly, the work of Jackson Pollock -- with his interests in Oriental art. Marden has made intense and complicated images out of this dialogue. His internal argument about his sources is settled, and the show is an exhilarating vindication of the expressive reach of abstract art: an argument for beauty...
...Brice Marden: best abstract painter of his generation...