Word: phantasma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vinylite, to full-bodied oils thickly applied to gain surface richness. What remains the same is Tamayo's distinctive approach, which can assault the senses with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems perched uninvited on the window ledge. Closed in Mexico City last week. Tamayo's triumphant show will be seen next month at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries...
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