Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...esteem, New York's Guggenheim is now holding a retrospective of the comic-strip-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein, and the saggy, baggy sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney Museum, not to be outdone, will exhibit another major Pop artist, Jim Dine, in February...
Oldenburg has no doubts. "People have a terrible time with the names of things," he says. "The artist sees the world abstractly-form and color. Through his work, he hopes to get people to see the world as he does." From his cavernous studio in New Haven, he sees Snake Mountain on one side, a railroad freight yard on the other. As an artist he looks on both with an equal...
...last analysis," wrote Marcel Duchamp, the most cerebral artist of the 20th century, "the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of art history." Right now Oldenburg-and some of his fellow Popsters as well-seems assured of a place in the primers...
...Emilio Pucci is not a Renaissance man, he is doing one of the best imitations around. A Florentine marchese with a pedigree dating to Donatello, the designer, artist, sportsman, politician and resort-hopper has etched his name into the fashion lexicon of the decade. With the opening of a one-man show of silkscreens, tapestry rugs and sculptures in New York last week, Pucci, at 54, seems about to do for walls and floors what he has done for fashionable women on five continents-swathe them in splinters and swirls of color...
...artist today, either black or white, could possibly paint or envision the tender, natural black and white spirits as Michelangelo did on the Sistine Ceiling-the twin inspirations of the prophetess Cumaea. But along with Michelangelo, today's artists might ponder the thought of Plotinus, the sooty, stooped and radiant philosopher who argued that dark and light together shape the world...