Word: willems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When viewing the later works of Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Willem de Kooning in the current exhibit at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum, lateness itself assumes striking importance. In contrast to modernists recognized for one definitive style--like Barnett Newman and Pollock--Johns, Serra and de Kooning eschew a signature style, instead favoring a perpetually regenerating dynamism...
...black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy ending complete with deus ex machina. Not to mention frequent references...
Wild at Heart is about nothing, perhaps, but the power of pictures to shock the nervous system -- so much so that the film may be rated X in the U.S. It's about the fun that actors can have with characters named Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), Perdita Durango (Rossellini) and Mr. Reindeer (Morgan Shepherd). It's about obsessive imagery and compulsive behavior: half the people walk on crutches, and just about everybody chain-smokes, sometimes two cigarettes at a time. And, aptly for a film shown in the living movie museum of Cannes, Wild at Heart is Lynch's fond...
...Japanese fixations on Renoir and Van Gogh, had ceased to pull the rest. A week earlier, Sotheby's contemporary auction was a flop, with overall sales totaling little more than $55 million against estimates of about $86 million to more than $112 million. The prices of "name" artists, from Willem de Kooning to Eric Fischl and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were humiliatingly trounced, although a few -- Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn -- saw new levels set for their work...
...starting to stumble too. In auctions last week at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York City, artworks on the block sold for a total just under $100 million, or about 40% below expectations. An estimated one-third of the pieces went unsold. Among the jilted paintings: Willem de Kooning's Woman as Landscape, which was expected to fetch as much as $12 million...