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...blue hypnotic glow; a tract of colored light takes on the apparent density of a screen or a boundary. These are not cheap hall-of-illusion effects. At its best, as in Raemar, Turrell's work has a restrained, elevated air, hushed and deliberate; one thinks of Mark Rothko's paintings, translated into three dimensions and actual conditions of light. And just as Rothko's paintings were once accused of "emptiness" - there being nothing for the casual eye to engage beyond a couple of fuzzy colored rectangles - so Turrell's installations may be thought, by some...
...between nature and man. The medium of this relationship was religious experience. Here, art preached while remaining whole as art; and the result was a fervid intensity, within the image of American space, that could never quite be recaptured-despite the efforts of "transcendentalist" American abstract painters like Mark Rothko to revive it a century later...
DIED. Philip Guston, 66, influential U.S. painter; of a heart attack; in Woodstock, N. Y. The Canadian-born son of Russian immigrants, Guston joined Jackson Pollock, a schoolmate of his in Los Angeles, and other contemporaries like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko in forging the abstract expressionist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the past decade he returned from his often dreamlike works to representational painting. His explanation: "I got sick and tired of all the purity. I wanted to tell stories...
...ancestors, and I know myself best by my gestures, meanings...not through a study of my family tree." To a great extent he succeeded. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like his work, and even the influence of surrealism, a vital catalyst for Pollock and Rothko, is less apparent in Still than anywhere else in abstract expressionism. Instead of going by fits and starts, testing and absorbing other art, Still's career gives the impression of monolithic solidity: he found his style early and stuck to it for more than 30 years. No other artist living today...
...look tenuous indeed. In this changed context, it is the figures and their mood, rather than their surrounding artifacts, that one notices first; and they connect to an older realist tradition, far from the self-consciousness and media-play of Pop. They resemble, as the late Mark Rothko once said, "walk-in Hoppers," sculptural equivalents to the world of that American master, with its nocturnal bars and waiting figures. Segal's tableaux have a flavor of the '30s-overlaid, now and then, with a sharp erotic curiosity. Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein...