Her initial mature paintings — portraying nerve-racked women or vaguely sinister children — somewhat recall the suavely decadent symbolism of Francesco Clemente, only with considerably less polish.
Peter Selz, now director of the Univ. of California's Art Museum in Berkeley, made the initial choice of paintings & sculptures & submitted them to Mrs. Ganz last August.
"Painting stripe paintings is a vigorous kind of thing.
But he said that Dr. Taylor's research had reinforced his initial doubts after examining the paintings.
Mr. Mykhac said he only helped arrange an initial viewing of the wall paintings by the Yad Vashem representatives.
The very first item acquired by the museum, when it was chartered in 1870, was an ancient tomb — which, along with a hundred and seventy-four paintings, constituted the initial collection at the museum's original location, a former dance academy on Fifth Avenue between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Streets.
Both Mr. Thaw and Dr. O'Connor said their initial opinion was that the paintings were not by Pollock and could in fact have been painted by more than one artist; one of Mr. Thaw's theories is that they were the creations of Mercedes Matter and her art students, trying to imitate Pollock's technique.
To support discovery, the journey is not linear — you can jump to different directions (e.g. by combining "art" and "nanotechnology") or you can continue with related topics (e.g. "art" and "abstract paintings")." The initial bubbles that appear in the app are "based on hot topics" and also on what concurrent users of the system are doing — so akin to Twitter's trending feature.
And while the initial project gave access to 1,000 paintings, visitors may now look at more than 32,000 works in all art media, from aboriginal rock art to textiles, glass and ceramics.
It can take the form of decorative initials, scattered miniatures or full-page paintings.
