Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dubbed as "Blueprint 2000," the plan is the lieutenant governor's main task for this year. The project concentrates on education, human services, employment and the environment...
Blueprint 2000 is still in early planning stages. The programs it designs are scheduled to be carried out in January 1989. Right now the project is gathering information from the 351 cities and towns of Massachusetts, and has yet to draw formal conclusions about the state's needs...
...aluminum, gray as sea fog, that swells across the wall of MOMA in a magnificent piece with the Melvillean title of Loomings, 1986, Stella wrings more pictorial feeling from abstract art than anyone else alive. His big paintings, when they come off, are almost unique in their confidence: they project a sense of grandeur rather than the usual American inflation of scale. They are also marked by their will to confront, to deal their aesthetic cards face up, as plainly as possible...
...space- grabbing objects, it is upstairs at MOMA, a little thing of rusty tin: Picasso's 1912 Guitar. Thinking about Picasso, Stella had come to realize that "it's not the presence of a recognizable figure in Picasso that in itself makes things real, but his ability to project the image and to have it be so physical, so painted...
Stella had to kick free of the literal basis of color-field painting; the flat color on a flat plane, the "dictatorship of the medium," had killed off the project of making abstract forms that, by moving in deep pictorial space, reawakened one's sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier...