Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examined in the prices fetched by leading pictures of the previous 50 or 100 years, because the artist "is a dealer in pictures, and it is as important for him to learn how to adapt his wares to the market . . . as it is for him to be able to paint the picture." How many students today would even recognize this as satire...
...word neo-expressionism is misapplied to American art in the '80s. The marks that convey heaviness and heat -- turgid, lava-like floods of paint, fulgurous color, primitive and mythic imagery, and the like -- are, as any art student knows by now, conventional signs that can be (and usually are) manipulated as lightly and coldly as Coke bottles in a Warhol. In this republic, the "expressive" comes down to another form of pop art, retooled for an audience strung out on fictions of personal authenticity...
...chief defender of oil and gas interests in the House is Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, who also happens to be ! Rostenkowski's main rival to succeed O'Neill when he steps down as Speaker after next year. To defeat the heavily favored Wright, Rostenkowski may try to paint him as the captive of fat cats...
...chief defender of oil and gas interests in the House is Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, who also happens to be Rostenkowski's main rival to succeed O'Neill when he steps down as Speaker after next year. To defeat the heavily favored Wright, Rostenkowski may try to paint him as the captive of fat cats...
...block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...