Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STARK CANNING-WHITELEY Manhattan...
Living in a rambling adobe house in the sun-baked New Mexico mountains, still painting stark, haunting canvases as she nears her 81st year, Georgia O'Keeffe is as full of flash and flint as ever. "Art critics read into my paintings things about themselves that have nothing to do with me at all," she told a reporter. "I don't think my subconscious is all that crazy. The meaning is there on canvas. If you don't get it, that's too bad." And what was she working on right now? inquired the reporter. "Nothing...
...almost calligraphic in their approach, assimilating the idiom of Japanese expression through the medium of the camera. The photographs of the Nixon-Eisenhower campaign in Texas brought home the unbiased catholicism of Cartier-Bresson's intuition. He did not exploit or criticize, as a European or an artist, the stark tribal events of this country, but rather absorbed the faces, the landscapes, the posters...
...novelist who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), is--if one were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served...
...chalk landscapes are very unusual--ephemeral, misty, and soft. Six Boucher studies are included, among them a wonderful study of hands, and a head by Bernini and one by Watteau. Contemporary drawings by Giacomo Porzano ("Man with a Cigarette") and Walt Kuhn ("Study for the painting 'Roberto'") are very stark and striking...