Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They are just lucky they're off the hook," said Reder. "Anyway, how long will it take 20 people to paint half a hallway...
...also hell. In order to paint it, Beckmann developed a repertory of figures that seem literally imprisoned by the limits of the canvas. The sense of dislocation and implacable graphic firmness this involved, in works like The Dream, 1921, was surpassed by no other artist. The amputee on a ladder with the fish slung round his neck, the war veteran blowing his tin trumpet, the catatonic blond girl--in their mingled density and strangeness, they seem like quotations from some permanent layer of German consciousness. All the more so because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage...
...Quakers, despite their unimpressive record, are an awfully good team. Perry Bromwell and Karl Racine form one of the finest Ivy League backcourts ever, and with center Bruce Leftkowitz setting up in the paint, the team will be through one to handle...
...Rennaissance Man characteristics obscure what friends say is an intense sense of moral urgency that animates his approach to the presidency, a sharp contrast to the image of amorality which critics, especially those in the divestiture movement, paint of Bok. Simon, for instance, recalls the stint of military service Bok served in the Judge Advocate's Office in Washington in the early 1950s, when Bok fought the military's loyalty screening program, which ran a McCarthy-like board that investigated soldiers thought to be subversive...
...Their paint was like no one else's. Coat after coat was laboriously scraped back with the edge of a meat cleaver and then scumbled again until it looked weirdly provisional, a thin caking of color in the pores of the canvas. The works were gripping yet strangely distant, scratchily insistent rather than speechifying, and their scale was utterly convincing...