Monroe's beaming Technicolor face -- a simplified, seemingly slapdash combination of red lips, yellow hair and ultramarine skin -- is a distillation of the myth of celebrity.
Six years later she and Gavin Brown, a young dealer on the verge of opening a gallery, staged a two-week display of weirdly illustrational, seemingly slapdash charcoal-and-ink drawings based on photographs or prints of scenes from the lives of Ludwig II of Bavaria, Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth II and Marie Antoinette.
Despite slacker appearances, however, Pegg was a driven man, and out of this seemingly slapdash life he created Spaced, the cult TV sitcom which told the tale of Tim (Pegg) and Daisy (Jessica Hynes, who co-wrote Spaced with him), who pretend to be a couple in order to get a flat.
With seemingly slapdash aplomb, the artist evokes for us a sense of that hazy world behind closed eyes.
Her work employs vernacular materials, pop-cultural allusions, and seemingly slapdash procedures to mock — while also exploiting — the passive-aggressive obduracy of classic minimalism.
The work employs vernacular materials, pop-cultural allusions, and seemingly slapdash procedures to mock — while also exploiting — the passive-aggressive obduracy of classic minimalism.
The twin poles of this activity were "the solemn, exquisitely conscious, self-annihilating structures of Bergman's great film 'Persona' " (1966) and Godard's seemingly slapdash methods, which were "much more light-hearted, playful, often witty, sometimes flippant, sometimes just silly".
The slapdash security that resulted in the death of Ambassador Stevens, technician Sean Smith and CIA guards Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty started with a seemingly inconsequential decision by Libya's new government.
It was a seemingly ego-less room.
