Word: artists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blood. Breath. Violence, trauma, struggle, survival. These are the heady subjects of Susan Rothenberg's latest body of paintings, on display now at the MFA in Boston. The exhibit, which contains several paintings fresh from the artist's studio, befits an artist who once declared that Monet's paintings were essentially decorative because they packed no psychological punch. Rothenberg's own work, while often stunningly beautiful, is never merely decorative: the sum impact of the punch delivered by her last decade of work is enough to send you reeling...
...knew what he was doing. Andy Warhol played with iconography, holding up our artifacts to say that the commonplace holds as much significance as anything else in our lives. He spoke to a society afraid of meaningfulness and wrong answers. The pop artist fed an international culture weaned off of substance and onto fashion...
...Drawing board. Note lack of artist. The Graphics board has been in the process of dying all year, and it can be difficult to find anyone to draw anything...
Goodfellow, a restaurant administrator and freelance make-up artist, says that she could be spending her weekends differently but feels good about working for charity...
...Rhapsody in Blue is a smartly syncopated tribute to ageless caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In the style of the NINAs that Hirschfeld hides in his drawings, the piece is crawling with furtive graffiti: a few Ninas, a "Goldberg" apartment house and, everywhere, the word Doug (a tribute to Disney layout artist Doug Walker...