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Another statuette, "Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Left Armpit," does less to observe the limits of good taste. The woman subject, towel in hand, is twisted around on an armchair, her attention unabashedly focused on the intimate task at hand. The robe slumped formlessly over the back of the chair only adds to the inelegance of the action. And underneath this action lies perhaps the most cruel aspect of the pose: the woman's squat. Her corpulent legs half spread and half closed, and her behind perched unattractively on the very edge of the chair, the pose obviously...
Garden Shears. The robe is not a completely new motif for Dine. It goes back to 1964, when he saw an ad illustrating one in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he later remarked, "but when I saw it, it looked like me. I thought I was in it." It became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo...
Early sacerdotal portraits of this kind are seldom seen in the West, because most of the surviving ones remain in their temples and are the most sacred of cult objects. The Zen master sits in the lotus position on a plain bench; his robe falls almost to the ground; a pair of empty slippers fit below its hem. Its spread belies the slenderness of the old priest, who was probably about 80 when the likeness was made. His face is all parchment and bone. The prow of a nose and the jutting underlip have a fierce antique gravity, like Renaissance...
...Jeffersonian attitude where the trappings of public office are concerned. As Georgia's chief executive, he sometimes surprised visitors to the Governor's mansion by appearing barefoot and in Levi's, even as Jefferson used to greet visitors to the White House in an old robe and slippers. Carter is discovering, however, that it is not quite so easy to resist the perquisites of the modern presidency...
...coat isn't only conveying the contours of the coat or its texture and brightness, but, in a much bolder use of color, pushes into existance the space in which the coat stands, and implies the distance between this red coat and the next green robe. The Western artist who approached this use of color most closely, before the Cubists, was Paolo Uccello (of the red horses...