Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Things are still well made," insists Keith Sonnier, "but the artists are sneakier about it." Sometimes indeed they are so sneaky that their craftsmanship eludes the viewer altogether. Bruce Nauman, 26, at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...
...Knoedler's exhibit, offers a valuable look at what almost seems to be a contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
...nothing to do with techniques. As Wittkower observes, the finished fresco had to be made solid and impressive with all its forms and symbols differentiated and understandable. Patrons expected such qualities. But in the preliminary sketch, the artist was working for the moment-and thus shares with the viewer the freshness and spontaneity of his initial vision...
Throwing Temper Tantrums. Here is a Lear with a willful, robber baron strain of not quite legitimate authority. The viewer feels that he has carved out his kingdom just as he proposes to carve up the map of England for his daughters. As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing...
...almost every viewer has been jolted by the National Safety Council ad showing a couple tooling down a highway. An announcer's voice says "Guess who Sid and Gladys ran into day before yesterday?" There is silence, then the sickening sound of a collision followed by the return of the voice with the answer: "Hank and Marilyn." Even Smokey the Bear is growling nowadays: his fire-prevention spots feature footage of charred woodlands...