word painting
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They assiduously avoid the “I” word, painting the committee’s work as garden-variety oversight.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
Ms. Wilks’s most highly valued Spiegel collection works at Christie’s were Sigmar Polke’s 1964 Ben-Day dot canvas, “Frau mit Butterbrot,” and “Untitled,” a 1988 Christopher Wool word painting emblazoned with “PLEASE” six times.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2017
Accredited institutions are invited, even encouraged, to borrow, say, a simple Christopher Wool word painting or a monumentally complex tapestry of woven metal bits by El Anatsui.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2015
With a fellow collector-investor, John Sayegh-Belchatowski, he paid $14.2 million in November for a similar Wool word painting, “Fool,” at Christie’s.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2015
Painting, indeed, is not praised amiss with that word; painting is obviously an art that exists by its convention—the convention is the art.
From The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
