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| Throughout the early '80s, Cubist still-life concerns reappeared in paintings depicting coffee cups, shoes, and fragments of domestic interiors, while her Chicago connection insinuated itself in images of wispy, ghostly hands, wraithlike figures, and schematized animalistic biomorphs. There is definitely something European about the two Smith series, for example--and Robert Storr, the author of the catalogue essay, is right in alluding to Hans Arp's biomorphs and to the paintings of Arp's wife, Sophie Taeuber--Arp. So while Poliock mapped his cosmic webs and Rothko, Still, and Newman distilled their paintings' residual personages or biomorphs into airy veils, solid walls, and lu minous measures of color, Guston stayed intent on telling tales. |
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