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...But a 1965 silkscreen painting titled “Red Self-Portrait” proved more contentious. The picture had been executed by a contract printer rather than at the artist’s studio, the Factory....
...Basquiat x Warhol is the most comprehensive account yet shown of a rollercoaster friendship, begun in the highest spirits....
...I dragged that with me in spirit to Miami.” At high school, he studied life drawing and painting, “but I became more of a photo geek”, he says....
...Initially photography sneaked into painting: Andy Warhol’s silkscreens, the collages of Robert Rauschenberg trying to “act in the gap” between life and art....
...He emphasises that “there’s still the spirit of a family business, and we want to stay local wherever we are”....
...You would not guess from those clinical silkscreens, devoted to godless fame and consumption, that America would find politicised religion in the 1970s, for example....
...I think the real influence for me is the liberational spirit that Rauschenberg had: the reaction against formalism, his complete inclusiveness....
...Just as some of the Chinese mango-craze artefacts look remarkably like the Pop art they knew nothing of, Warhol’s silkscreens of the 1960s sported the rough black edges and fuzzed colour of worker-student...
...Walt Disney made Fantasia in the same year, and Cornell, too, wrote a film scenario, never produced, about a ballerina morphing into a winged spirit....
...Digital printing allows for experimentation that would have been much harder with silkscreen printing, says Mann....
...The accessories — a vast floral corsage worn at the neck, or a canvas weekender — underlined the collection’s wanderlusty spirit....
...Except that LeWitt was a great artist precisely because he betrayed the spirit of his own manifesto....
...Where, then, is the spirit of dissent?...
...Only it’s not a painting at all, but a silkscreen, the product of mechanical reproduction....
...“I did lots of other stuff, but it was done in a different spirit. It was done with the spirit that I wanted to be an artist, not that I was an artist.”...
...Inside, healthy sales suggested that high spirits would prevail. Snapped up within the first 10 minutes was the spectacular sculpture “White Snow Head” (2012) by Californian star Paul McCarthy....
...Were you a free spirit? I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged....
...French film critic André Bazin wrote this in 1958, just when photography was entering the painterly mainstream in Robert Rauschenberg’s “Combines” and Andy Warhol’s silkscreens....
...Yet few works engage more enticingly than Therrien’s with the casual monumentality of the museum’s industrial architecture and with its spirit of high art meets family entertainment....
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