Word: resin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smithsonian Institution's auspices, the U.S. pavilion displayed ten artists in the American "figurative" tradition. The dreamlike canvases of Edwin Dickinson commanded respect. The satiric Chicago of Red Grooms was a hit, and the sallow, sexy, epoxy-resin girls of Frank Gallo drew same fascinated attention. But otherwise the reaction was: "The U.S. has so many marvelous painters and sculptors. Why did they send us this...
...Hashish, a form of marijuana with an extremely high concentration of the hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...
Compounding the confusion, marijuana itself is an inexact term. All marijuana comes from the female hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, which grows worldwide. As the plants ripen, their flower and seed heads exude a resin that contains the highest natural concentration of active cannabis chemicals. The pure resin is hashish, a combination of powerful chemicals. Hashish, by Giordano's own testimony, rarely reaches...
...best, only the handmaiden to inspiration. "The ideas you have," he explains, "force you to try new materials, not the other way around." His Manhattan studio has been redone five times in ten years as he shifted from bronze to steel and plastic constructions and finally to polyester resin. One of his recent plastic pieces is Five Inverted Pyramids, a work that gleams with static tension; it confines the eye with its precise geometry, while at the same time allowing it to penetrate luxuriously into the center of the form...
Hugh Hefner has one by his bedside, and Capitol Records could think of nothing more delightful to give to the Beatles for a present. Small wonder, considering what the girls are like. Slightly more astonishing is that the slender, sexy, epoxy-resin swingers molded by Illinois Sculptor Frank Gallo, 34, also spice up museums from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Milwaukee, and even Victoria, Australia...