Word: retouching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spaghetti, looking like whereas vomit, or Pollock-in onyx, or his best work, at any rate-had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar image of him as a violent expressionist. As William Rubin suggests in the catalogue to this show...