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...used the term ‘recreational painting?? and I think they were a little offended by that,” he recalls about the “brusque” reply. Though Foo has few other complaints about the department, he does wish “they were more open to giving students information” about access to the campus’s arts resources...
There’s a new painting up in the modern and contemporary gallery of the Fogg. Or perhaps “painting?? is too strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself...
...felt that Kline hadn’t beaten Pollock, he had simply outshouted him. He had taken one appealing aspect of Pollock’s painting??its base materiality—and excessively amplified it. And I think this kind of one-upsmanship is especially dangerous when it comes to base materiality or any similar strategy specifically designed to provoke a strong visceral response from the viewer. The problem is not that these strategies don’t suceed, but rather that they suceed far too well. At a certain point I think the visceral-reaction-inducing qualities...
...Gaskell said that in light of the controversy, the Fogg would re-examine the painting??s authenticity...
Three and a half decades later, Carlson still remembers the composition of those University Hall photographs, one of which he says was “like a Renaissance painting?? that he happened upon as it formed for a moment in the Faculty Room...