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nights ghoul
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· Jul 12
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!["Ceremonial Axe Head" bronze on wood base
----- [from the Smithsonian American Art Museum] -----
Ceremonial Axe Head shows Harold Tovish’s concern with the relationship between humans and machines.
For this piece, Tovish treated the bronze surface with a chemical coating to give it a weathered green color that resembles ritualistic jade pieces from Stone Age China.
Although the tool appears “primitive” by modern standards, the shape of the axe warns us that even simple technology has the potential to destroy human lives.
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Harold Tovish is a sculptor who works in bronze, wood, and synthetic media. He attended WPA art classes in the late 1930s and studied with Oronzio Maldarelli at Columbia University, then went to Paris to work with Ossip Zadkine. Tovish's early work reflects his experiments with figurative naturalism, which he often used to express themes of victimization. In 1949 his ideas became explicit in a series of figures that captured the horror he felt as a soldier exposed to Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II. Throughout his work Tovish seeks to unify form and content, placing heads or fragments of heads within spaces that function variously as refuges, prisons, or symbols of technological or societal entrapment. In the early 1950s, Tovish moved to Boston where he has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Boston University.
He spent 1965 as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreicx6g2o4q542empkg3laxlk7k7blrusfy7iiobhn6qjxbpxx4bheu@jpeg)
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Jennifreddy Glove Hewitt
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· Jun 21
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![[Altered boxart for the game Outlander (1993) by Mindscape for the Sega Genesis. Artwork depicts a roadway with a violent armed squad blocking the middle, with explosions, a truck, and a helicopter peppering the background. In the foreground dominating the left side of the shot is a leg, from that of an inflatable frog costume.]
[Title] PORTLANDER
[Sega Genesis Logo] FROG MENACES
[Sega Quality Seal] EXISTENCE IS JUST RESISTANCE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kbem3ccmlvp2uoqlvkv2ytqo/bafkreidk46ikkm5hvtojcloceu2gpv2gtjkh3tsrxwvtqhuybhmg2yl2ry@jpeg)
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!["A Foolish Trick" oil-based enamel and pencil on canvas
----- [from the Los Angeles Times] -----
By Christopher Knight - Art Critic
Peter Williams’ pointillist painting technique, crowding thousands of tiny dots of enamel color within pencil-drawn contours of people, places and things, is not the same as the celebrated one pioneered more than a century ago by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. His look yields a very different feel from the measured, careful tone of those French Postimpressionists.
Brash color is plainly important to the 14 Williams paintings in his Los Angeles debut at Luis De Jesus Gallery, most (though not all) of which explode with pointillist dots. Rather than the scientifically inflected approach of letting pure hues painted on a canvas mix only when they reach an observer’s eye, the Delaware-based artist, 66, uses staccato dots in an almost ritual way.
Fixated, determined, relentless — those are the descriptors for the pointillism of big, roiling, undulating crowd scenes in works like “Wild Thing, I Think I Love You” and “A Foolish Trick.” A gallery handout also connects the dots to Australian aboriginal art and African scarification patterns. Whatever the sources, the painter’s steadfast focus drives the viewer’s.
In the latter work, a rider mounted on horseback, ancient symbol of heroic triumph, is impossibly balanced on a tightrope before a staring, wide-eyed throng. The rider stands precariously on a variation of a Pan-African flag, a white mask worn over his black face. The foolishness of the balancing trick is transformed into trenchant racial spectacle.
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Thousands of dots and brightly colored patterns stitch them (and us) together.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreiezl2qw3tt7r4vwzikv4k3tqz24phle6oojowcmaq7gsekly2f564@jpeg)