Word: artists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Keeffe exhibited the bold flower paintings that further inflamed her reputation. They have since become the staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked that the blossoms resembled female genitalia, O'Keeffe ordered her to turn off the microphone and refused to speak about "such rubbish...
Still, it is the later artist who has won a more valid celebrity. This is the solitary poet of the desert, interpreter of bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she was never quite so leathery as she appeared. Robinson's final chapters suggest a Tennessee Williams scenario, with an old woman smitten and exploited by her handsome protege, ceramist Juan Hamilton. Over the family's protests, Hamilton manipulated the painter's affairs until her death in 1986. He was eventually...
...last spring, the council lost approximately$20,000 on a hastily organized and poorly attendedconcert by pop-folk artist Suzanne Vega
Even though this array of projects suggests an artist who refuses to specialize, who doesn't see limits, who, perhaps most important, doesn't want to be forever categorized as the "designer of the Viet Nam memorial," her approach to her work is intrinsically the same as it has always been. When she looks at a site, she says, she considers more than the mere physicality of it. She considers the "emotional and psychological context" of the place -- the people, the background, the history. Then there is the form itself. "Tactility," she says suddenly, with such emphasis that it suggests...
...Viet Nam memorial in Washington has become a touchstone for American feelings about that war. Now in Montgomery the artist has created the first- ever memorial to the civil rights movement -- a risky work that may delve even deeper into the American character...