These from the Moby Dick series I liked very much and still do. I like how the seriousness of the Black striped paintings comes out in a Mythic way. It is through the use of Picasso and forceful drawing.
The more decorative color of the preceding athletic type now has a rigor of the players themselves. They have a oppositional relationship like in Moby Dick itself.
The compositional aspects like in Elizabeth Murray, I guess are chiefly Picasso's again, but re created a new era here.
His Norton lectures, made into the book that we all had back then, Working Space, is interesting to note at this point. He went back to Caravaggio he says, always mysterious to me as I see Rubens more but he went back to explore a dynamic pictorial space adding that to the new physical reality of his work.
The earlier Painted Birds which I had liked so much back then, were under represented. These maquets are great and I remember trying to emulate them with beer cans and tin snips.
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