Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom set in.
"I read somewhere of how Prokofiev wrote a classical symphony in middle life," says he, "and I decided I wanted to draw like the old masters. Not because I thought it would do me good, but just because I wanted to." His figures now became bold and clear, though they...
Pure Force. In the current show hangs another Washington, which only hints at the figure, usually through quick, strong charcoal lines suggesting an arm, a torso, a head. Even his most realistic canvas, Last Civil War Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers...
There are times when Rivers seems more whimsical than profound, but neither he nor the paintings he produces could ever be said to be boring. "If your interest is in features and fingernails," says he of his current phase, "the colors you choose will be subjected to that. But when...
There was a time when the great Siamese Kings who ruled in what is now Thailand waged war for an extraordinary purpose: to capture as many artists and artisans as possible. The conquerors rarely sought glory for themselves, nor did they want their artists to produce anything novel. The art...