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so pictures of the bitches??

man, i feel so bad for the dude, his 1st post, heat was already on his ass. slaughter time...

your topic and the result you are seeking are 2 different things

i have no idea what this is about, this is kind of retarded

airborne doesn't work, settle lawsuit for 23.3 mil

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/04/news/companies/airborne_settlement/index.htm?section=money_latest

'Color Field' Artists Found a Different Way

NPR 3/4/08

Washington, D.C., is known for many things, but launching an art movement is not one of them. Still, starting in the 1950s, the federal city was a cradle for a group of artists who produced colorful, abstract, even joyful works. One art critic dubbed them "color field" painters. An exhibition of 39 of their works just went on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

These artists had amazing, tradition-breaking techniques. They rarely used paint brushes. They didn't prime their huge canvases before putting on their paint. And some of them — like Gene Davis — couldn't even draw. He was a sportswriter, then went on to report on Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Yet Davis always wanted to make art.

"But he was in his 40s and he said, 'I'm much too old to learn to draw. I know how hard it is. So I am going to simply going to paint stripes,'" says Betsy Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

And so, Broun says, without doing a single drawing, Davis striped his way onto the walls of museums around the world. Using what looks to be a very long ruler, Davis set down a series of strictly drawn straight lines, and painted various vivid colors inside those lines.

Color as Expression

His main interest was color — what it could express, without representing anything. No apples, chairs or torsos. Just stripes of bright color.

"He said, 'I play by eye in the same way that a jazz musician plays by ear,' Broun says. "These are artists who came along very much in a postwar mood. The economy was doing well, the nation was all recovering and bouncing back."

Broun says the color field pioneers — Davis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Sam Gilliam among them — reflected the upbeat spirit of the 1950s and early '60s ... the stability of the Eisenhower years, the youthful possibilities of JFK.

"There is a kind of celebratory quality to a lot of these works," Broun says. "There was recently a Morris Louis show and a scholar named Alex Nemerov said, 'he looks like court painter to John F. Kennedy.'"

'Needs and Invention'

Their artistic inspiration was New York painter Helen Frankenthaler. Her pictures reacted to the ropey, anxious canvases of abstract expressionism.

"She was looking for a different way to get a more luminous quality in her painting," Broun says.

Frankenthaler was influenced by Jackson Pollock. She knew him, and watched him work in the early 1950s. She saw him put his canvases flat on the floor, and then rope and lasso skeins of enamel paint onto them.

"What I took from that was the gesture and the attitude and the floor working," Frankenthaler said in a 1988 NPR interview. "But I wanted to work with shapes in a very different way. And instead of being involved in his technique, what evolved for me out of my needs and invention had to do with pouring paint, and staining paint."

To do that, Frankenthaler diluted her paint, thinning it out so it melted into the weave of the canvas and became the canvas. And the canvas became the painting.

This was new.

A Life-Changing Experience

Two young Washington artists — Noland and Louis — rode a train up to Manhattan to visit an art critic friend named Clement Greenberg. He was Frankenthaler's lover at the time, and took the D.C. painters to her studio. There they saw her massive1952 work, "Mountains and Sea" — tinted with buckets of fast-drying, thinned out acrylic paint that she poured and dribbled and pooled onto unprimed canvas.

Smithsonian curator Joanna Marsh says it was a life-changing experience. The men went home to Washington and started to pour. Morris Louis did, anyway. Kenneth Noland was more symmetrical, sometimes straight-edged and geometric, with wonderful colors, put on flat — sometimes with a brush — in abstract shapes. Louis was freer, with radiant colors soaked into the canvas in light, translucent veils.

"Louis worked in his dining room in his home,'' Marsh says. "It was a very small space and he was quite secretive about his process. He didn't allow people to come in to see him while he was working."

Sometimes Louis' work was a secret to himself. For a series he called "Unfurled," made on wide, wide canvases, his small studio became a real issue.

"He had to work piecemeal," Marsh says. "He never saw the entire canvas, because the space was so confined. So he would work on one section, for instance the left side, and then he would move over to the right side of the canvas, but not be able to see what he had just done on the left."

In a way, that determination to "make it new" defined the art of all of the color field painters. Now their bright and shining new ideas can be seen at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington through May 26. The exhibition is called "Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975." It was organized by Karen Wilkin for the American Federation of Arts.

jonah, you came a long way......

the same people that despise graffiti at the first place are buying up artists' canvas like crazy.

since for some reason it's cool now.

just ranting, went to an art show over the weekend, and the adjacent gallery was showing artist from the crew like AWR, MSK, and you could hear the owner/manager saying "you know he actually went to federal penitentiaries for graffiti for 5 years, well yes it is a federal offense you know..." as if he was trying to add more street credit to the artist, and yet from my eyes, it was such slap in the face, i dont know, maybe it's the community's way of revenge, by selling works for ungodly amount of money to the ungodly people who put you down in the first place. so who is guilty after all.

i just wish there are more place that open 24 hrs like back in asia....shit never shuts down......

not even involve eating, like a book store or something....

fuck!!!! i have such hard time sleep right now

in k town, there are hodori and the one next to it, vermont and olympic, it's at the south west corner of the intersection

anyone knows any 24 hrs spot i could hit late at night in LA area??

i know the restaurant in K town open 24 hrs, and there is a starbucks in torrance open 24 hrs as well, but is there anything else that don't shut down?? like book store or what ever......

dont tell me 7-11 or gas station

looks mighty good!!!

Not really a SuFu-approved brand, but I love them. Hand made in France and buyers' remorse to follow soon...

who care what other people say, as long as u like it, shit...... i dig it, nice pick up

i'm gonna say premiata uomo or costume national

zappos.com

not as cheap as u want, but they are great shoes, made with really good qualities material, but if price indeed is the deciding factor, i wouls say try zara, thay have those nicely designer knock off shoes at the range you want

if any one have this movie

B420, i'll would like to buy a copy off them!!

edison chen sex tape?

lulzers!

for some reason, i dont know feel bad for any of the girls that was in those tapes and leak out photos.

i have the sharp 903, it came from JP, works every where.

fuck, why dont we all get together and smoke some crack, we will be on our way.

this is truely narcism to the next level

things are gross the fuck out of me, yet i can't turn away

^ that is very wrong......very wrong,

^i agree with you fully. but there are times, where it's better u held up your personal value as oppose bending back wards for a shit job and a shit boss

haha. I think that goes for pretty much everyone who works in the industry. Hell, that's pretty much what ASR is for!

i know last year ASR i went too far, i was told that smash my face on the concrete at the gaslamp, and i broke my big toe.

no, i just type really fast at work, i dont really proof read too much of my stuff on web, yeah, even thou i think i should. and i actually did just now.

thanks for calling out.