Word: underpaint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kecks stripped off the canvas backing. On the hot table, they flattened ripples and smoothed out cracks, working the paint back together and touching it up where necessary with judicious "inpainting." At least once, the Kecks had to scoop out from the back of a picture underpaint that had never dried and was still gooey...
From Cool to Hottest. Slowly, Tony's yard in South Orange began to fill with huge, geometric shapes. Except for The Black Box, Die, and a third piece called Free Ride, all were plywood mockups, built with the help of friends and coated with auto-body underpaint. (Like Henry Ford, Tony believes in letting the customer have any color, so long as it's black.) "I never thought of them as sculpture," says Tony today. "I thought of them as basic design." But other sculptors in other studios were building basic boxes and calling it art. A trend...
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