Word: rotella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they looked as leprous as Dubuffets. Today they seem tender, full of regard for discarded things, and about as threatening as sunlight on an old wall; one realizes this was always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing with popular imagery in the early '60s, like Mimmo Rotella, lack the bluntness of their American counterparts. Rotella's Marilyn, 1962, a torn poster "found" and peeled from the wall, is partly about abstract expressionist gesture, partly about the ruin of images by time, and not in the least concerned with the shiny newness Pop art liked...
Salvador G. Rotella '88, bass player for Wired for Sound, said, "I really enjoy playing, but I have the most fun performing. It seems like a reward for practicing--it makes me sit down and go through the tedious parts, like in proving my music theory...
...Rotella said that while he plans to keep playing in bands in college, afterwards he has no plans to make a music a career...