Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first it was an optical shimmer, a weaving of color energy on the surface, in deference to the prevalent American art theory of the day and, to some degree, in homage to Riley. The work of Mark Rothko, which Scully had seen as a student, was a presiding influence. It had shown him how a neutral and even boring form, an imperfect rectangle, could accumulate reserves of feeling and cogitation -- how the life of the mind and its tentative decisions could be embodied, not just illustrated, in pigment. And there had been a visit to Morocco in 1970; there Scully...
...surfaces and turns them into something other, and more physically compelling, than flat pattern. It's not that Scully has any strong sculptural impulse; when he makes one slab of a painting project an inch or two above the adjoining surface, it is still not meant to be seen in the round or to suggest material weight. But he does want to give the image the distinctness of a body, asserting itself against your gaze...
...ability to translate higher spending into concrete results is also crucial. The problem, of course, is that the fruits of education reform are often not seen for decades. "The toughest battle is to convince the public that dollars invested in education are golden, that the payoff is there," says Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction in California...
...emphasized to the audience, will not help in educational reforms if you speak in a different voice. There is no point in trying to do what you think is best if you have not seen that view reflected in the public...
...figuring out what the trout is eating and which artificial flies imitate those insects. Armed with a little entomology and inflamed with trout psychosis, you start buying everything that countless catalogs offer: stream thermometers, a flashlight for nighttime fishing, hook- sharpening files, dozens of flies no fish has ever seen...