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Result #1

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 new paintings are small, densely pigmented, all-over, linear and anemically developed. They seem to hover between the two- and four-part grids of a continuous line. The shapes are open and fluid and are often combined with the appearance of three-dimensionality. Some of the elements are not quite as grotesque as they seem. The degree of expression in the painting of the neckline and of the elongated rectangular sections of the neck is wonderful. The continuous horizontal strip, sometimes joined at the top by a vertical one, can be looked at in some ways, and sometimes in others, to read as three-dimensional. If one were to describe the shapes in three dimensions, then the gray-black grid would be more like an arc than an outline. The complicated irregularity of the shapes and the appearance of three-dimensionality at the top and bottom are good for communicating the sense of multiple planes, a kind of displacement or dispersal of space. A painterly sense of movement, and the open-ended nature of the shapes, a natural process that takes place in all the paintings, are qualities of the medium that cannot be summed up. It is not difficult to describe a sense of fullness and profoundness, of fluidity and of total or complex space. The colors, in particular, are beautiful. Not only are they in large but they are deeply rich and in many cases not quite as strong as they are on paper. The geometric shapes, some of which are in intense variegation, have the effect of being some of the more obscure shapes on canvas. But the color itself is light, and not dark; a number of the colors in the new paintings are so rich they make the colors seem fresh.The new paintings are not very good. They work better in the new size, when painted with finer lines.

Result #2

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 title of this exhibition was, perhaps, aptly itself. Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1994, a collage made up of 14 flat, triptychically painted photographs—representing the real world and the urban—punching up to roughly the same height as a Soviet or American aircraft carrier. The artists symbol was a red, red, red, and black triangle, a straight line, and a hazy, funereal pall. Hidalgos work actually became somewhat controversial as a political statement in the early 90s, especially in Mexico City, where the artist, born in 1954, was especially active in the agitations of the Zapatistas and the subsequent rebellions against the Mexican military. Even though the images were taken in Mexico City, the images were not presented in a typical digital format. The photograms were published as small-format black-and-white prints on opaque plastic, and several pieces were exhibited in gallery displays. Using printed and hand-colored color to create a pictorial-historical context, Hidalgo juxtaposed one color with another to produce a complex visual structure that defied traditional notions of facture.Hidalgos photography is primarily based on photographs of the border zone between the United States and Mexico, in addition to the following other sites: a military base, a tribal camp, a school, a hospital, and the Ciudad Juarez freeway. The result is a mix of history, anthropology, and geography, encompassing an urban-rural dialectical struggle that is at once historical and modern, national and regional, and international. The six-part collage, which dates back to 1985, contains a catalogue of the juxtapositions and juxtapositions in Hidalgos work, in which hundreds of details from the works surface. The visual illusion of the surface results from the fact that the placement of the same color on a flat, backlit surface creates an illusion of depth.

Result #3

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|>Most of the paintings in Frank Gruber, his second solo exhibition at Tony Schapiro Gallery, are about the nature of that life that he and his wife, Carolyn, have lived together for the past decade. At the center of it all, the Gruber brothers have said, is the symbology of the human being as a way of being and an animal. Theyve had to learn to live with that symbology in order to live a life that is totally human. Their relationship with the animals in the pictures is not the same. It is a symbology in conflict with itself. They want to maintain the close, personal relationship they have with the animals, but its very nature, the symbology theyve constructed with the animals, the dual nature of which theyve explored and constantly criticized. What theyve found out about the animals, then, is the very nature of the human being.A number of the paintings in the show are of a series of portraits, done in 2006, of the Gruber family. (The Gruber brothers have said that the pictures are family pictures, and that they love the idea of family.) The earliest is The Gruber Family, 2001. It is a close-up of a boy in a short-shorts-off-tail jacket. The rest of the portraits are done in 2006. One is The Gruber Family, 2002, and the others are from 2005. And the last picture, from 2005, is one of many in the show, all of which are based on images from Gruber photographs of his brothers. The man in the center of the painting is the same man who appears in many of the photographs, so the paintings come to represent a portrait of the individual. The brothers arent exhibiting any emotion, just an expression of the same expression. They are not the same kind of brothers, either. Instead, they are the same kind of family.

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! <|startoftext|>It is not a true representation of things, but a brilliant reflection. In his latest show he demonstrates his ability to make the most out of small visual elements. The shows title is a misnomer because the show is filled with a series of exquisitely painted, muted, and in places seemingly lost in what they are. Gone are the bright, colorful colors and a more subdued mood. The colors are so muted that it is hard to tell where they come from. The feeling that the work is gone, or that it is a moment of someone elses imagination is a disappointment. The paintings tend to lose their patina and sparkle as if the sun were not there. The colored lacquers, or their variations on the gray color, are so subtle that you cant tell what the artist is doing with them. In an era when color and light are on the market, the colors just dont look so at home together. It is as though he had thought of a way of bringing them into the fold of painting. What he is trying to do is add something to the picture.This latest exhibition is a major departure from his previous work. In fact, his work has always been about setting up a visual system of rules, according to which an object or scene must have an identity that cannot be dissolved. The idea is to create a relationship between the object and its environment that cannot be shaken up or fixed. In this show, however, the focus is on the relationship between an individual object and its environment. The great changes that took place in his work since last year have to do with the relationship between an image and its environment. In the past he used an image of a damming wave as a starting point; now he focuses on the structure of the dam, and does so with a greater sensitivity than before.

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! <|startoftext|>An essay by Charles Dorantes in The New Yorker of December 7, 1968, claimed that Doric was an important figure in the history of American painting. At that point in the day, the work of art in America was not only of the past, but of the future. It was, he asserted, an art of great permanence, of constant progress, of sheer intelligence, of a capacity to realize anything. Until the day of the firing squad, the work of art would last forever. And indeed, it was in the midst of the factories that Doric had been working when his body was found in the Meadowlands.His son, Walter, continues to paint Doric on canvas. He said that the publics in America had such a high regard for Doric that they had forgotten their liking for the giant. A number of years later, in a public space, Walter Doric, who had died in 1981 at the age of seventy-four, proposed to purchase the paintings of Doric for $1,000 each. It is a clever idea. The paintings of this master, of the Doric who was forever strong and inveterate, would not be bought for less than the sum of its worth. Still, it is a very good idea. Doric, who is as wealthy as ever, sold his works for an estimated $150,000.Within the museum, it is difficult to fathom how Doric's public, which had never before been able to see and be dazzled by a painting of such vast scale, could have turned down the offer. Several thousand of Doric's canvases were on display here, and they were terrific. Art of extraordinary genius, these canvases are exquisite. Sculpture, with its implicit divine presence, is undiluted and, above all, in the eyes of the public, godlike.