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The Surprise of Pousette-Dart |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Eric Gibson |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 484 Words, 3,041 Characters |
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The biggest surprise of the current art season has been the touring retrospective of Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, organized by Joanne Kuebler of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It is surprising not only for the marvelous quality of the paintings, but also for the fact that this ...
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...sembles a more radically hallucinatory version of van Gogh's Starry Night. It is at once more inward--in its highly subjective and attenuated relationship to visual reality--and "outward"--in the deliberate evocation, through the title and imagery, of interstellar space. This may not be textbook Abstract Expressionism. But it is unforgettable painting deserving the widest audience possible.
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