Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greg Bright's Maze Book, subtitled Extraordinary Puzzles for Extraordinary People, is a collection of some three dozen pen-and-ink drawings that are not only a fiendishly frustrating challenge to the cocktail-table Theseus but also are art works of amazing-so to speak-delicacy and variety. Some resemble Op art, others an elaborate electronic circuit; they look like a nexus of noodles, or paranoid doodles, or 18th century chinoiserie. Some of these Bright ideas are even designed with no exits or entrances...
...months ago. But he was tan, handsomely graying and in top political form. Meeting high school students, he did not lecture them but sounded out their opinions on national policy. At Grafton, a local policeman mumbled about Chappaquiddick and complained that Kennedy had swiped his Bic pen to sign autographs. But when he caught sight of the Senator, the cop shook his hand enthusiastically and said...
...opening session, everyone is given a notebook and ballpoint pen and told to use them freely. "Thoughts" are to be shunned in favor of writing down "feelings," which are "neither good nor bad, they just are." As the meetings progress, the participants are told, they will be asked to write answers to questions ("What is the quality in us that I like best?"). These answers will be the basis of what, in the jargon of the Encounter, is called a "conjugal dialogue." It takes place when husband and wife are alone and have traded notebooks...
...Kooning's portraits are equally fascinating. Portrait of Max Morgulis displays great sensitivity to the intensity of the pencil line. Subtle changes in pressure lend a delicacy to the face, which seems to emerge quietly from the paper. A less representational series of pen and ink drawings are devoted to the female form in relation to its surroundings. In Figure in Interior the human body is absorbed by bold black strokes that envelop it. The woman in Untitled, 1967, is swept up in the rhythm of the lines as one might be carried off by a hurricane...
Abstract Impressionists have also been called Action Painters because they place so much emphasis on the brush and pen stroke itself. In fact, Jackson Pollock once explained his art by saying, "The source of my painting is the unconscious," and his works, some of which have been made with sticks and syringes. Indicate that he is more concerned with drips and squirts of paint than with the organization of his canvas and the control of his lines. The Action Painting trend peaked around 1950; afterwards artists returned to concrete images and forms. This exhibition seems to help explain...