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INTO THE RAINBOW.
Abstract painting used to be the prow of art history. Now it is a field of special, refined, even snooty taste, like serious jazz. The big values that it once represented, such as the symbolizing of up-to-date consciousness, aren't exactly debunked, but they've become worn smooth from use. Current abstract painting must tout small values--freshness, finesse--merely to stay interesting. Because no major new idea has informed the genre for decades, most abstract painters can't help reshuffling the terms of modern paradigms, from Kandinsky and Mondrian to Pollock, de Kooning, and the early Frank Stella. These and other signs of belatedness may be found in a grand show of new ...
- Brice Marden: Museum of Modern Art, New York.(paintings exhibition)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Anfam, David January 1, 2007 700+ words
...reduction and elaboration, Marden has retained a canny knack...abstraction, as it were. Marden's singularity comes across...gallery, with pieces from his New York solo debut in 1966 at the Bykert...Dylan Painting, 1966/86, Marden's meticulous marginal effects...
- Brice Marden at PaceWildenstein and Matthew Marks.(New York, New York)(Review...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Wei, Lilly March 1, 1996 700+ words
...provided a quick recapitulation of Marden's achievements, although...Small Corpus (1993-94). Marden's drawings have always been...installation called Workbook, Hydra-New York, a 32-piece glossary of...greater chromatic range than Marden has used for some time; plummy...
- Brice Marden. (paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Schwabsky, Barry January 1, 1996 700+ words
...had been done in four minutes. Brice Marden's new paintings embody the same highly...seems, has replaced the long brushes Marden used to create the precariously high...cubistic facets. In his recent works, Marden has thickened and smoothed his lines...
- Helen Marden at Thomas Healy.(New York, NY)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Heartney, Eleanor June 1, 1998 700+ words
Helen Marden's recent abstract paintings don't aim to ingratiate. Most are filled...the exhibition left the viewer with a sense of warring sensibilities. Marden can be a colorist, and the smaller works play figure against ground in...
- Five painters.(Painting exhibitions of work by Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence,...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Naves, Mario February 1, 1999 700+ words
The retrospective of paintings by Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art was organized as an effort to define a figure whose place in twentieth-century art has long been formidable. In its scale and presentation, the MOMA show milks both Pollock the artist (ambitious, tumultuous, and flawed)
- "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings & Drawings".
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Yezzi, David December 1, 2006 700+ words
"Brice Marden: A Retrospective of...Museum of Modern Art, New York. October 29, 2006...retrospective of Brice Marden's work at MOMA could...was a moment, in which Marden first introduced his...late contribution to New York School painting. Having...
- J.H. Cohn and Marden, Harrison & Kreuter Combine Services.
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 24, 2007 700+ words
...its services with Marden, Harrison &...of White Plains, New York, effective July 19. The former Marden, Harrison &...with Berenson and Marden, Harrison &...of J.H. Cohn's New York office. "Not only...
- Marden Manor: abstract painter Brice Marden--the latest in a long line of great...
- Magazine article from: W Reginato, James November 1, 2006 700+ words
...mansion in Tivoli New York. And though Marden's large-scale...Yale University, Marden moved to another town on the Hudson, New York City, where, with...lured by the old Marden "river thing," began exploring New York's Dutchess County...
