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The painting shows a shrieking wind from low-hanging squall clouds as it pushes a three-masted schooner through towering cape horn swells. St. Elmo's fire glows at the top of the mainmast as lightning strikes the storm-tossed sea. A cinematic masterpiece of a painting! <|startoftext|>Janet Shieldss work has, in recent years, shed her skin, but it remains the same: naked and covered with pockmarks, pierced with cairns, blackened, battered, and done up in the way a bad coat and a bit of dirty lipstick can be. With these works Shields finds a way to make her work look beautiful while at the same time ignoring its history and function. Just as her works go, however, she has a sense of humor that is all the more welcome in the face of the show, curated by Kristine Dangin, which featured Shieldss work as well as a number of well-known artists such as James Turrell, Sally Meyer, and Christie Sanders.One work that seems to rise above the rest in this show is the woodcut titled S. C. T. M. (Slaughter), 1973, in which Shields is depicted standing atop a headless skeleton with a circle of red paint over her head. The plump, waxy creatures in this work are called slayers, the pictures show the creatures in their most horrible state, and the red painting seems to play on an idea of all-out rage. Shieldss body and face are distorted, headless, and covered in small holes. Her wrists and elbows are permanently broken. On her shoulders are the words: TURN US CRIMES ON, GO DOWN AROUND AND OUT, INSIDE OUT. Shieldss aim here is to help her slayers escape, to transform the present of modern life into something more interesting.In other pieces in the show, Shields found a way to connect the two: a series of smaller paintings called Chords, 1973, about a nude woman using different instruments to carry out various tasks. The simplest of the chords is a skirtline made of a few dozen flowers, with a tube and string connecting one of the flowers.

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The painting shows a shrieking wind from low-hanging squall clouds as it pushes a three-masted schooner through towering cape horn swells. St. Elmo's fire glows at the top of the mainmast as lightning strikes the storm-tossed sea. A cinematic masterpiece of a painting! <|startoftext|>If it wasnt for the work of the late John Chamberlain it would be hard to imagine. His work is preeminent for his utilization of the text in the form of nonfigurative figures. In his writings and sermons, the text is expressed in the form of the figure, often with the stroke of a letter or an image, often repeating the words of the text. One of these figures is a little boy, a stone-faced, white-robed man of the 80s. His face is one of anonymity. He wears a striped shirt and a wide-brimmed hat. His mouth is a blank stare. He turns away from us as if he didnt care who we are. It doesnt matter what we do. The kid doesnt look up.The piece is called The Watcher. It was the first of two large paintings in this show. Both were large paintings in bronze. The other works, which ranged in size from large to small, were a commentary on the role of the reader in an age of cosmopolitanism. In the large painting, the text is set in landscape on a flat field of green grass. The landscape is broken by a dozen, sometimes twenty-six, small-sized figures. In each painting, the text is set on a single vertical block of grass, painted in a deep richly saturated color and a glossy red. The text is printed in blocks of varying sizes, from the smallest to the largest, and appears to be alternately forming a landscape, a symbol of the universal, an entire universe. In the smaller, more abstract painting, a tree has been cut from the bottom. The text is splattered across the surface in an indeterminate pattern. The tree is cut in half, and the one from the top is scattered around the bottom. In each case, the text is left unilluminated.

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The painting shows a shrieking wind from low-hanging squall clouds as it pushes a three-masted schooner through towering cape horn swells. St. Elmo's fire glows at the top of the mainmast as lightning strikes the storm-tossed sea. A cinematic masterpiece of a painting! <|startoftext|>As one of the first artists to express the psychosocial ramifications of the workaday, the corpse and the body of the dead have been relatively the same since the advent of popular photography. Their images provide a locus of both the psychological and the sociological. This is also true of the concept of the figure as an object in an experiential environment, and of the suicide. St. Elsemans pictures retain the dead-card appearance of the medium in their use of an immersive effect. He does not pretend to an aesthetic system for capturing the grandiose scale and immaculate view of the interior of a body; he captures the corpse as it is reduced to a single point, a cadaver, a blank canvas, an apothecary. In the same way, the body of the artist has been seen as an active, moving, and fulfilling part of the experience of the workaday. By permitting the body to be filled with shadow and light, St. Elseman conveys the power of a dead body, a body in which the artist is present.The psychic nature of St. Elsemans images can be observed in his use of light. His paintings are filled with scintillating, luminous, and deadpan color. Not only does his style recall that of Ad Reinhardts photoportraits, but it also echoes the bluish-violet hue of a cadaver. These figures are all seemingly dead; their skin is still, but their spirit lives on. As a result, the art of the figure is not removed from its everyday function, but becomes the unit of all its functioning functions. Although their bodies are saturated with color and scintillating, these canvases are not neutral, nor are they aesthetically empty. The presence of a body does not mark a death, but rather the disappearance of the subject, his or her soul, from the world of the physical world.

Result #4

The painting shows a shrieking wind from low-hanging squall clouds as it pushes a three-masted schooner through towering cape horn swells. St. Elmo's fire glows at the top of the mainmast as lightning strikes the storm-tossed sea. A cinematic masterpiece of a painting! —Javier Hernández-Brno, who calls himself the studio director, added a disarming twist to the proceedings: The artist hung the canvas that had inspired the work on the wall, to welcome visitors to the gallery. The work appeared to be a depiction of a looming mountain range from the bottom of a canister, itself inspired by the northern, snowy peaks of British Columbia. The viewer was then invited to uncover the sculpture, as if the painting were actually alive. The monolith was hidden, and no-one was permitted to touch it, for it was in reality a tape recording that showed the artist giving his signature hokey talk on the topic of Metaphor, the relationship between art and society.The artists impromptu installation had a simple plot: On the walls were two works by him that had been found in an abandoned house: a stack of floorboards and a framed photo of the artist holding a hammer. Behind each wall hung a hanging sheet of glass, a mirror and two leather-covered mirror-repellent panels. The artist told his story: My father was an alcoholic. He once left a dead body behind in the kitchen of our house, and the day I found it, he was furious. His wife and I rushed him to the hospital, but he refused to give up his beer. . . . I had a gun. The next day, I showed him the body, and he was going to leave the house alive.But when the artist began to fill the pan with beer, his father refused. He said, You had to have faith, you had to have faith. The glass, the mirror, the mirror. . . . He opened a door and took his father inside. The next day, he went to the local police and informed them that he had shot his father in self-defense. The officers took him to a psychiatric hospital, where he remained until 2002.

Result #5

The painting shows a shrieking wind from low-hanging squall clouds as it pushes a three-masted schooner through towering cape horn swells. St. Elmo's fire glows at the top of the mainmast as lightning strikes the storm-tossed sea. A cinematic masterpiece of a painting! The influence of the Chinese printing press on the American people is easily apparent. A drawing of Uncle Sam clutching his fist in the kind of stubborn resolve to remain out of the flood plains, Uncle Sam is printed on large sheets of paper. It is a dangerous picture for those who would like to make the American public conform to the dictates of their own values. In this deceptively simple but immensely sophisticated way, the artist of the Republic, as the sacred guardian of liberty and justice, has been molded into a caged bird. This is, in fact, the very iconography of a tsarist Russian monad—a crisis of faith and faith in itself that has remained intact through centuries of ideological support.The painting illustrates the bizarre dynamics of religious and political orthodoxies. In the middle of the picture, for example, we see Uncle Sam holding a red cross as his back is to the sky, as if someone is screaming with his hands in the air. And at the top of the painting, Russia is seen facing a looming U-boat—a popular and eternal enemy of the tsarist state. And yet, in the middle of the picture, we can see a red cross and a button (which releases the sounds of flying birds) which both confirm and falsify the pagan faith of the gods. In other words, the religious elite can survive, and through this survival culture the very idea of morality is found.The painting is not merely an emblem of the spiritual in this contemporary predicament. It is also a direct expression of the imperial impulse that has undermined the secular. To quote one of the contributors to this exhibition, the Revolution, in Russia, was the pure and innocent resurrection of Christ. This is the paradoxical paradox of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which did not imagine that it could escape the ruin of society through an external reformation.