Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to decide what we want. If we want open spaces, fresh water and clean air, we should be willing to sacrifice the concentration of industry. When you put ten massive industries side by side on one river, even if you scientifically eliminate the pollution problem, you still have the environmental problem of unsightliness...
...room left. Get in an airplane and go up 30,000 feet and see America. Fly across it. There are clusters of people on the coasts, a few clusters in the heartland. But there are thousands and thousands of square miles in which you see nothing. The challenges are still great. We haven't even started...
Damp Light. Oblivious to fashion and personal fortune, Diebenkorn has often detoured when a less determined painter might have rested on a comfortable plateau of achievement. Under the influence of Clyfford Still and the late David Park, he plunged headlong into Abstract Expressionism while a student at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Then, in 1955, he found himself in something of a bind, as he describes it, bored with splashing color around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human...
Somewhat surprised that he does not even sketch from life any longer, Diebenkorn is still searching in his painting for that perfect balance of freedom and license. He explains, "Somehow, if you can put a shape, a space, a color anywhere, that's not good. And yet if it has to go just here so specifically because of things like gravity and time of day and source of light, that gets to be a drag...
...plate and scored five runs as San Francisco's Willie McCovey belted the first of two home runs. Even St. Louis Pitcher Steve Carlton, the game's eventual winner, lashed a run-producing double. Detroit's Bill Freehan came back with a homer, but that still left the Americans on the short end of an 8-2 score...