Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work was carried out under the supervision of the Getty's director, Miguel Angel Corzo, a Spaniard. When he began six years ago, he faced a formidable task. Paint was flaking and chunks of plaster were detached from the limestone walls. Insects nested in corners. Egyptian officials had glued large squares of cloth to the walls to prevent them from collapsing and had suspended a net to catch portions of falling ceiling plaster...
...celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint from the wall, using...
...conservation process took four years. No retouching of the original paint was allowed; the purpose was to preserve rather than enhance. Areas where paint and plaster had disappeared were left bare. But many of the murals are remarkably intact, the colors as rich and vivid as if they had been applied yesterday...
...vintage American style, inspired her children to make something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...
Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...