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...said right off that, in America at least, Richter was easy to miss. Think the words "new German art," and you think "neo-Expressionism." Think that, and the heart sinks. Heftige malerei, the German critics used to call it, "heavyweight painting," and it was certainly crude enough for three drunken gnomes and a village woodcutter. Inch-thick paint (the stuff that used to mean "sincerity" in the 1980s, remember?) and sculptures mutilated from tree roots with chain saws. All this rhetoric, now so comic, had its equivalents in the States (think of Julian Schnabel and his pretensions), but Germany...
...work, although meant to be in-your-face, is also strikingly beautiful. The models Kussell chose to paint are largely attractive people, made more appealing through the medium of painting, in which their skin and features become preternaturally perfect. The work is then confrontational both through scale and aesthetic features...
...Crimson article on the arrangement noted the dilapidated condition of the property, describing the first floor, covered with paint cans and bottles of disinfectant, as “a work in progress.” But students moved in immediately to help defray costs by paying rent for their housing. They painted and cleaned and, pretty soon, Sigma Chi had a cozy home to call their...
Trashing the environment is a sure vote loser, so the Administration frequently tries to paint itself green, and sometimes ends up saying one thing and doing another. At his confirmation hearings, Attorney General John Ashcroft pledged to enforce another Clinton-era policy--the "roadless rule," which protected 58.5 million acres of national forest land from development. At the very end of his term, Clinton passed the rule, leaving it for the Bush Administration to put into action. And Bush has kept it on the books. But when logging companies challenged the measure in court, the defense put up by Ashcroft...
Thanks to Lucas and his brilliant team, special effects became the prettiest new tool in the movie paint box. "Star Wars convinced filmmakers that you can do anything bigger and better to enhance the shot," says Jason Barlow, lead CG animator for the effects company RIOT. "Now, with digital technology, real magic can happen." The movie even changed the way films are financed. Notes cultural critic John Seabrook: "Because of its huge box office, it interested Wall Street people who had previously seen Hollywood as small potatoes. The Star Wars numbers brought a new variety of investor and financial manager...