Word: raffael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken somewhere else and killed. Brill believes that Hoffa's body was later completely destroyed in a large trash shredder, compactor or incinerator-or some combination of all three-at Central Sanitation Services in nearby Hamtramck, Mich. The refuse-disposal company is owned by two Detroit crime figures, Raffael Quasarano and Peter Vitale...
...Interior approached some 45 artists with the suggestion that they go on location throughout America and paint what they saw, provided that what they looked at fell under the department's jurisdiction: mountains and swamps, plains, beaches, dams, railroads, national parks, sawmills, highways. California's Joseph Raffael went to Hawaii and came back with large paintings of water lilies; New York City's best painter of cityscape, John Button, stood at the foot of the Shasta Dam and rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence...
...Water Paintings are the freest images Raffael has so far made, and by far the most poetic. The blots, scribbles and stains of the paint-closely worked and yet oddly abstract, as if performed in a trance-are analogues to the liquidity of water itself. Paint "equals" water in much the same way as, in some Renaissance portraiture, the graininess of pigment "equals" the cellular structure of flesh...
...photographs Raffael used had an obvious function: they froze time. Pictures of this size (some 6 ft. by 9 ft.) cannot readily be made by setting up an easel beside some river in northern California; only Monet, with his unequaled powers of observing and retaining a fleeting effect of light and movement, could paint his water-lily murals in open air at Giverny with gardeners struggling to haul the vast 19-ft. canvases in and out of his studio. But Raffael's images are not ruled by their starting point in the photo. They are recreation, not enlargement; between...
...observes this water bubbling over falls and ledges, moving icily above its brown pebbles or taking the sky like a slightly ominous and broken sheet of mercury, the illusionistic skill is impressive. But the real life of these paintings comes from Raffael's ability to take a slice of river and, by giving it absolute presence, turn it into the stuff of contemplation. The Water Paintings are lyrical considerations of time and mutability, as well as matter. "You cannot," Heraclitus remarked, "step into the same river twice"-an observation that a later Greek sophist neatly amended: "You cannot step...