For all his workhorse tendencies, it would be a mistake to laud them over his actual talent – the waxy delicacy of his features the canvas for a rare, skewed intensity, his unnerving presence never once played as smirky camp.
So, for example, on this conception, if I see a dalmatian, I am subject to a mental picture-like representation of a dalmatian (a sense-datum), introspection of which reveals to me both its content and its intrinsic, non-representationational features (counterparts to the visual features of the blobs of paint on the canvas).
From my limited usage, the site seems to combine some of the key features of Pinterest, Tumblr, Canvas, and Ning to produce a community platform that's both highly visual and potentially highly engaging, too.
Titled "Aftermath: Artifact," each one features a painted portrait face that peers out from the folds of the canvas like a captive inside the vitrine.
Executed in 1981-82, the untitled work in deep reds, blues and greens features a skull, one of the artist's leitmotifs, on the right side of the canvas.
Intensely layered abstractions feature breadth as well as depth, with paint manipulated into three-dimensional forms right on the surface of the canvas.
The piece is a version of an earlier project, Silhouettes, which featured a needle-covered canvas with lamps behind it which were controlled by the pair, manipulating the spatial dimensions of the canvas in the process.
The turmoil is on the very surface of the canvas.
A singleton of the canvas object can be accessed via a service named "canvas".
The global deformation shape of the canvas can also be used for investigating the stretch and strain of the canvas.
