* "PAINTING: A PASSIONATE RESPONSE," Painting Center, 52 Greene Street, SoHo, (212) 343-1060 (through tomorrow).
* "PAINTING: A PASSIONATE RESPONSE," Painting Center, 52 Greene Street, (212) 343-1060 (through March 2).
Both epic and intimate, the big painting centers on a slight, kind gesture.
Galleries: SoHo * "JUMP," the Painting Center, 52 Greene Street, (212) 343-1060 (through Nov. 23).
The painting centers on a village and its carefully tended valley, seen from the vantage point of a curving dirt lane on an overgrown hill glimpsed in the canvas's lower right corner.
You can include basketball courts, baseball fields, painting center, etc. Invite police officers, firefighters and special guests.
Bringing geometric abstraction closer to the present are a vigorously frontal painting of centered, elementary forms from 1960 by Al Held; and, also from 1978, a Pop-style picture by Roy Lichtenstein that juxtaposes two figures, one geometric and the other Surrealistic.
The painting is centered with a thin yellow border on a red background.
The painting is centered on the Sejm marshal Stanisław Małachowski (1), who is wearing a white, French-inspired costume.
"O.K., I'll make it $100 and I'll match the paint," says Phil, motioning, apparently, toward the paint center inside the auto parts store.
