Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...
Other exhibitors experiment with media to develop personal styles. Nikki Schuman uses water colors on unsized muslin to get blurred edges and indefinite forms. In a painting called "Seagulls," blues and greens and brown run over one another to create watery planes around and through two graceful human figures. In "Gross and Untitled," the blobby quality of paint seeping into fiber is used to depict two horrendously obese females in green bikinis...
While Miss Schuman tries for an illusion of depth, Jamie Smith actually builds out the canvas with pounds of acrylic paint. Smith's "Orpheus" is a light-flooded canvas reminiscent of Impressionism. Roughly textured yellow-greens make up a landscape with field and trees. David Brown uses elaborate surface treatment to an entirely different end. His "Life: Elaine" is a mannered portrait of a lady with classically abstracted features and gilt collar and background. It could be a painting of the sixteenth century. But there is a stylistically twentieth century figure off to one side, and a plastic coating makes...
...MONEY: "There can't be any question of despising money. On the contrary, one's painting has to bring it in. But one mustn't paint the kind of pictures that bring...