Mr. Schnabel affixed broken plates and tree branches to his paintings; Mr. Kiefer covered straw with paint, tar and painted words.
But on a Bhopal wall, across the street from the plant site, he is remembered with neatly painted words: "Hang Anderson".
In the seven paintings and attendant studies, which have not been seen together since 1965, Mr. Ruscha momentarily eliminates painted words in favor of large nature-book renderings of wildlife isolated on solid grounds of blue or brown.
Typeset text and painted words vie with one another, and Delaunay used the optical effect of simultaneous contrast (by which the juxtaposition of different colours affects how we perceive them) with great energy, subtlety and vitality.
RADCLIFFE BAILEY, 40, a mixed-media artist in Atlanta, is known for collages and sculptures that explore African-American history and his own experiences through the use of old family photographs, heirlooms, painted words and maps.
And as the musicians, John Purcell, Ronnie Burrage and Matthew Garrison, performed "Art in Concert," an improvisational gig on keyboards, woodwinds and bass guitar, sculptors worked in oil, painters opted to mold in clay, sketchers smeared paint with their fingers and painted words instead of flowers.
It was more diverse than ever before, and more interdependent with the rest of the world (he painted word-pictures of Iowa farmers digitally studying world commodity prices in real-time).
Later he experimented with painting words as if they had been written by using poured liquids.
Only then did he paint words on them chosen randomly from an art book, he said.
"I was just making up these things after frustrations with other ways of painting words," he said.
Along with glass, Ms. Longo-Muth paints words, especially words that are seen through glass and thereby distorted.
