Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underlying--and overshadowing--these trends is a simple truth: Big time capitalists and conservative ideologues are succeeding in their attempt to paint labor unions as greedy, unecessary, corrupt and bad for the economy. There are the glossy ads of the National Right to Work committee, which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers...
Toward the end of his life, Guston was painting the world as a charnel house of gross dreams and irreconcilable conflicts: no satisfaction anywhere, except in the creamy, impasted paint, which remained as lavish as in his abstract paintings. The essential Guston is all there in a work like Entrance, 1979. It is about intrusion and helplessness, the mind's impotence to fend off its demons. A door opens, and in rolls a mass of Guston's standard images-the trampling, dismembered limbs, nasty enough even without the bugs that advance with them across the floor. Then...
...area; one facility was closed down when not a soul showed up. For the most part, Californians simply followed the precautions recommended by state officials. They closed their windows, brought children's playthings inside and covered their cars with sheets or tarpaulins to prevent chemical damage to the paint. They also showed a sense of humor. The Medfly Project Headquarters in Los Gatos dubbed itself "Home of Old Blue Eyes," and a market blossomed for FLY WARS T shirts and MEDFLY SWAT TEAM buttons...
...walked on the moon in 1969, is no has-Bean. Even though he retired last month from NASA, Bean still ranks as a man of the moon. His self-appointed mission: to paint lunar landscapes. A 20-year dabbler who once imitated the apples and oranges of his favorite painters, Cezanne and Degas, Bean switched three years ago to moonscapes. His works, featuring black sky, gray ground and American lunar craft are a spacy combination of impressionism and realism. So far, he has finished six such oils and plans a show for next year. Snaps Bean: "I want...
...evidence of this disciplined rush to perfection of technique and technology can be seen at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...