Word: darting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...back of the Bow is their domain. From the newly-installed big screen sports television to the pit which holds three dart boards all the way up to the pole which marks the bar's midway point, the regulars roam...
Nearby, in the dart pit, two guys are scuffling. One man has his arm wrapped around the neck of another. A student, a woman wearing a black sweater, takes a puff out of a cigarette and dully looks...
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART: A RETROSPECTIVE, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Overshadowed by such contemporaries as De Kooning and Pollock, the pioneering Abstract Expressionist Pousette-Dart, 74, is here done belated and handsome justice. Through...
...images are keyed to the scale of the single brushmark and yet seem immeasurably far away, out in deep space. By Pousette-Dart's own account, they were influenced by the graininess of astronomical photography. They don't read as literal pictures of the firmament but rather as invitations to contemplate the far in the near. Some of them rely on the kind of "sacred geometry" -- archetypal figures, the square, the circle, the triangle -- that obsessed Kandinsky or Kupka. And at their best, because of the nuanced sensibility that goes into the labor of building up their primary forms, they...
...reproduction conveys the effect of a picture like Black Circle, Time, 1979-80. Painted every inch of the way with a Seurat-like determination to leave nothing accidental on the surface, it is Pousette-Dart's version of the circle that has been used, as a mandatory trope, by every Zen roshi for the past 300 years. It is the circle of black ink on white rice paper that says "emptiness" but also says "fullness," the abstract figure in which one can reflect on the presence of complete being...