Having an array of painting of widely varied standards is liberating, he said, adding that it would have been very difficult to establish criteria for inclusion.
Alongside his statutory eight chosen tracks, Fry departs for his desert island with a copy of TS Eliot's Four Quartets and a large array of painting equipment as his luxury.
Equally problematic, if less overtly politicized, is the Metropolitan Museum's "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861," a discordant array of painting, sculpture, photographs, furniture, documents, clothing, ceramics and glass.
At the same time, he developed a large body of gestural abstractions of every scale, using an array of painting methods, particularly a handmade squeegee technique that pushes and scrapes layers of coloured paint across the field of the canvas.
His paintings shown last spring at Metro Pictures in Chelsea were entirely black and white, with his humanoid character, uncomfortably civilized in an angular suit and tie and hat, wandering through hallucinatory landscapes built up out of a dazzling array of painting techniques.
Combining an array of painting mediums and techniques with various objects, photographs, clothing and the occasional book, the paintings veer from relief to sculpture and back again, usually with an excess of casual funkiness and familiarity (too much Rauschenberg, for one thing).
Surrounded by a messy array of paint tubes, brushes and paper cutouts, the little girl focuses intently on the canvas in front of her.
While his equally famous colleagues like Diebenkorn and Sam Francis developed an iconic, recognizable technique, he managed to resist any stylized approach and remains experimental, playing off of his curiosity in an unexpected array of painted applications.
Not to worry: Buyers will be invited to visit the Newport Pagnell factory and choose from a nearly limitless array of materials, paints and dye colors for the deep Wilton wool carpeting.
Her array of family photographs paints a lost world.
