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Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...
Dine's works during these years are theatrical and iconoclastic. Paintings like Black Bathroom #2, in which a china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of...
When Dwight Eisenhower began to paint by the numbers, thousands of aging Americans who had harbored a secret conviction that they were latent Rembrandts set up easels and began to daub burnt umber and indigo onto keyed spaces of their canvas kits.
In the general's land, illusion -along with cold steel and bribery-is one of the foundations of absolute power. Even the livestock that eventually overrun the palace cannot tell the real from the fictional. Observes one foreign diplomat: "The hens were pecking at the illusory wheat fields on...
...dramatics. Watkins wants us to absorb the colors and emotions of the affair direct from Munch's work, particularly from one, finished in 1893 and full of sinister sensuality, showing a woman leaning close over a man. The painting is titled Vampire. The director dwells on the haunted canvases with a sort of driven fascination, the way another film maker might linger over a scene of lovemaking...