Word: latex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead rabbit and false eyelashes; and he also requested a personal guard to protect his equipment and handiwork from whatever hazards might lurk in the bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken in the desolate Rift Valley outside Nairobi...
...time. "I guess disappearing into my gorilla suit and thumping my chest has something to do with a transference of power. You really do feel pretty powerful down in there." Of course, it was not all mangoes and bananas for him. The temperature went over 100° inside his latex and bearskin outfit, and Baker sweated off 5 Ibs. every working day. Then, too he was not responsible for his own facial expressions. He had five different masks to wear, depending on Kong's basic mood in the shot. The masks could be made to change expression...
...vulnerability to age and gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial. Her ambition was to go in below the level of style, making art whose sensuous appeal was obliterated by its coarse, laconic materials: latex, cheesecloth, scrap metal...
Hesse called Hangup "the most ridiculous structure I ever made, and that is why it is really good. It has a kind of depth of soul of absurdity." The form of her later pieces-ragged sheets of latex, irregular fiber-glass cylinders strewn at random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever...
...mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went through a fairly long Cezanne period and had an affair with early Grandma Moses. In his short Renoir stage, he managed to get the soft wispy effect in his tree leaves by dabbing on latex paint with an ordinary shaving brush. When he was under the Turner influence, he found he could create raging waves by running a dry thumb across Sherwin-Williams Aqua...