Word: splotch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this subject in such an elegant and delicate media. complete with paper napkins, plaster milk, and on an ordinary cafeteria tray really strikes the literary more than the visual funny bone. And Arneson's gawky earthenware bathroom sink is so literary that it even has a punchline-the brown splotch in the bowl is labeled "hard to get out stain...
...plot, in fact, is minimal. A pleasant place called Pepperland is invaded by a tribe of amorphous music-hating monsters called the Blue Meanies, who launch a devastating attack with "splotch guns," which drain their victims of color, and a ferocious Flying Glove, with jet propulsion and a sinister intelligence of its own. The Meanies' ranks fight the Apple Bonkers (who drop big green apples on people's heads) and the Snapping Turtle Turks with sharks' mouths for stomachs...
...hung oils. With his color box beside him, he mixed pigments in whatever was handy, even stale beer, to touch up details that would provide some visual reference for his baffled viewers. Once, a colorful Constable outshone one of Turner's seascapes. Turner put onto his work a splotch of bright red the size of a shilling that drew eyes away from the Constable. The next day Turner shaped it into a channel buoy...
...miss a splotch of the local color: a massive bowl of sinister black spaghetti that turns out to be white spaghetti slathered with an old Sicilian specialty, squid-ink sauce; a battle-royal between two skinny, toothless, fierce old men who roll about the rocky landscape hissing and ripping and snapping at each other like a couple of scorpions; a statue of the Virgin held in particular veneration by the Mafia: she has big soft, sentimental eyes-and her hand supports a skull...
Since the fad images of today are the square, the splotch and the soup can, it may seem that the only painters working with landscape are those daubing billboards to hide it. One who does not think that landscapes are old-fashioned is Jane Wilson, 39, a slim, chic former fashion mannequin who is personally as modern and vivacious as a girl in a Pepsi-Cola ad. Her recent landscapes and even newer cityscapes, which went on display last week at Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery, are suffused with such sunny fragrance that the New York Times...