Word: whistler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading...
...18th and 19th century American painting to its home audience, as well as to the city of Ingres, Delacroix and Manet, could have been better done. What the French will make of it, of course, is an open question, since the only premodern American artists known in France are Whistler, Eakins and Cassatt...
...plot bombings and other extralegal redresses. A delegation of three calls on Ross; people in his circle begin wondering where the young M.P.'s loyalties lie. Symons also conducts a guided tour of London's fin de siècle bohemia, where the names conjured with include Whistler, Turner and Beardsley. Oscar Wilde drops in on a party and charms everyone he greets...
...master quotation that ran through his silk-screened work in the early 1960s, a suite of variations on well-known paintings: Botticelli's Venus, that hardy standby of the Pop sensibility the Mona Lisa, and Gustave Courbet's rosy, meaty image of two lesbians-one of them Whistler's mistress-sprawled in amorous sleep. At times, as in All Abordello Doze 3, 1982, the degree of interference by overprinting, cutting and juxtaposition almost buries the motif in a landslide of variations, and yet Rauschenberg's close, laconic grasp of form saves the effect from chaos...
...boldness, not to say the rashness, with which Soyer has reached into the past for forms that have faded away after a century or more of desuetude. His picture is modeled after Hommage à Delacroix by Henri Fantin-Latour, who in 1864 lined up seven artists, including Manet and Whistler, and three writers, including Baudelaire, who had been Delacroix's admirers. Fantin-Latour then judiciously posed them beside a portrait of the great French Romantic painter. The composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected...