Word: precisionism
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The image of the paradisiacal Mediterranean that still haunts our imagination -- despite its present-day reality of myriad gridlocked campers frying in the sun at the tepid edge of a half-dead sea -- was created by these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their...
The Supreme Court has heard free exercise cases brought by a variety of claimants. The Court noted in 1944 that "men may believe what they cannot prove. They cannot be put to the proof of their religious doctrines." In 1981, it reiterated: "Religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent...
Instead, Louis sought a language of impersonal nuances. He found it in a complicated process of pleating the canvas and flooding it with runnels of diluted color, wash after wash, never a brush mark in sight. He "drew" his shapes by manipulating the effects of gravity on liquid. This certainly...
A highlight of the exhibition is the installation/sales counter by the Canadian group General Idea, who seem to believe that there's no difference anymore between mass media and art anymore. The copies of their "FILE" magazine on display present a truly odd mixture of art and self-indulgence. See...
All day Ray talks enlightenment, and we ask questions about how to back a horse, how to get his hindquarters around, how to make him back smoothly. He makes it clear that the dark corners of our own minds -- the doubt and divisiveness -- have to be explored first. To back...