Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cools and contracts. The show records a long-due disenchantment with the lumpy rhetoric of neoexpressionism, the hot ticket of the early '80s. The American confusion between size and scale remains. There may be a lesson in the fact that Richard Tuttle's three tiny, delectable pieces made of painted cardboard, scraps of wood and bits of twisted wire "carry" every bit as sharply as Judy Pfaff's enormous mural, which looks like a vastly inflated Frank Stella made of patio furniture. But at least the stage props of Deep Authenticity are less wearisomely apparent in this show than they...
...people who gave us the orders aretrying to paint us as running amok," said Tambs, aprofessor of history at Arizona State University."It's insane...
...recent article on beer commercials. When last seen, Chase was muttering a German phrase, roughly translatable as something unprintable. Jeff Wise will reside in Manila, supporting either Marcos or communist insurgency by knocking over tourist bingo games. Andrea Monfried will sojourn to Greece and promises to spray paint "Bono is God" on the Parthenon. And Mimi Sheller will slip down to Mexico to buy drugs. As usual, I'm staying here to do all the dirty work for a hopeless bunch of miscreants. Oh well. Until September...
...centurymany artists and critics became dissatisfied withthe establishment. The critic Vladimir Stasovurged a rejection of Western styles and ideals anda move toward "a national and original orientationin art." He called for Russian artists to rejectthe schools of European classicism and to developa new method of interpretation, allowing theartist "to paint a native landscape, and one inwhich he lived with nature, so as not to have toinvent each detail of his work, such as a foreignsky over a foreign land...
...political elite is nervous about the investigation. It is widely assumed that the conclusions will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says...