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...hardly meet the demand from private buyers, who willingly pay from $4,000 to $12,000 for a painting. Among today's so-called color-field painters, Olitski is ranked by many on a par with Kenneth Noland and the late Morris Louis. While the canvases of both Louis and Noland are generally filled with several areas of color that rest flatly on the canvas, Olitski has mastered the art of spraying on paint to create a single, subtly shaded veil that conveys an illusion of depth. It is a painstaking process; on a single painting...
...painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary of paint...
Poetic Package. Currently on display at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery are 41 works consisting mostly of words or scale drawings. Among them is one work titled Art as Idea as Idea, which is simply a photographic blowup of the dictionary definition of real. It is the end product of...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo...
History has tended to side with Byron. Nonetheless, buried beneath West's studied claptrap lurks considerable native talent. This gift shines forth in an exhibit of 36 rarely seen drawings, many of them owned until recently by descendants of the painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard...