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...attempts by the artists to learn from each other - one of Van Gogh's reasons for his commune - is evident throughout the exhibition. But what comes across more strongly is the inevitability of their eventual rejection of each other's artistic vision. Van Gogh works emotionally, using paint not only for color but to build up texture. Gauguin is more clinical, blending colors and interpreting what he sees, using scenes as grist for studio-based works...
...Gogh was consumed with the desire to learn from an artist who was already successful. In Arles, he tried to be less literal in his depictions, more sparing with his paint, blurring the outlines of his still lifes. But eventually the urge to express his soul could not be tamed. "When you see the paintings together side by side, Van Gogh's are the stronger," says Andreas Blühm, the Van Gogh Museum's head of exhibitions. "In the end there is a rejection of the other's style. The realization that they wanted different things from...
...work: “19 fluff bunnies. Nineteen cast plaster rabbits covered with Marshmallow Fluff™. Cast-cover-drip-display-shine-sniff-distaste-desire-ad nauseum.” And true to this description, he offers a bevy of 19 frighteningly exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures—they are caricatures of sculptures, caricatures of art writ large...
...submits a simulacrum of himself as "Harold," an aging cartoonist with his mind more on prostate cancer than on making art. Justin Green, another underground original, makes a welcome appearance with his typically personal story that starts with a childhood correspondence course in cartooning and ends with accidentally drinking paint thinner. Other contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about 30 others, all of them "names." Maybe my favorite is Phoebe Glockner's anti-comic, "I Hate Comics." "I mean just look at this...
...early January, two days into the new year, I stopped at Subway at 8 p.m. to buy a sandwich. The restaurant was empty and the fluorescent lights and yellow paint were about the same shade of somber. A woman, apron-clad, emerged from the back and took my order without looking at me. Turkey sub, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise. She removed a pre-sliced roll from a large plastic container and put it down on the white counter length cutting board before her. Next she took the turkey, already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs...