Tag: painting
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John Currin
I went to the Met one day in 1997, and I was looking at that painting by Velázquez, of the little girl with the butterfly things in her hair. I thought, That’s an odd color on the forehead, and I realized there was an underpainting, with a vermillion glaze over it. You could see the…
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John Baldessari
It’s a dramatic gesture, carpeting the whole gallery with clouds, and… covering the ceiling with this freeway pattern. I’m going to have all the guards wearing bowler hats. — John Baldessari on his design for a 2006 exhibition, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, LACMA