"This is not your standard paintings-on-the-wall show.
The selection was made in order to represent the different techniques applied by Sert, from his classical and standard oil paintings (sample VIC 5) to the multilayered metallic application with interposed varnishes and colored layers (samples VIC 2 and VIC 7).
It sets a standard for cloud paintings that many artists will emulate but few will attain.
If you look around your city's local galleries, you're likely to find the standard fare of paintings, drawings, sculpture and collage.
In sophisticated art, paintings of standard religious themes were often donated to churches in fulfillment of a vow.
The artworks themselves are hung with considerable space between each other so that each work can be observed without the distraction of other works and objects and small labels at the bottom right of the paintings give standard information about the artist, date, size, material of the work.
And although by today's standards many of the paintings of the period may seem quaint and some of the writing, well, atrocious, broadly speaking the group laid the groundwork for the American Renaissance -- the genius of Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, Hawthorne -- that was to emerge a generation later.
His first soup can paintings mimicked the standard red, black and white of the original Campbell's product.
It is rather late in the day to be trotting out old standards like On Kawara date paintings or Andy Warhol's film "Empire" for a show about time.
Mr. Algus's space, tiny by Chelsea standards, is lined with eight paintings from 1968-73 by Roy Colmer, a painter and video artist whose work stands out in "High Times, Hard Times" at the National Academy Museum.
Not all of Ms. Bell's paintings rise to that standard, however.
