Gissing planted a seed in my head — and then watered it by coming up with the notion of switching paintings in the warehouse.
"And I suppose I am," he observes, it seeming to have only just now dawned on him that his switching the paintings had coincided with this.
There are seven fulgent cadences, and different forms in the paintings switch on different ones.
As money got scarce in the 1970s, he found himself "switching from making paintings to using whatever I could fuckin' find.
In 1952 Mr. Rauschenberg switched to all-white paintings which were, in retrospect, spiritually akin to Cage's famous silent piece of music, during which a pianist sits for 4 minutes and 33 seconds at the keyboard without making a sound.
I then switched to small mixed media paintings.
Ms. Wilson, who was born in 1948 and made small, Magic Realist-type representational paintings for many years, switched to abstraction in 2001.
The Womansword series of paintings counterclaim some of the socially ascribed roles through the switching of gender roles, a switch that may at first be read as subtle but actually acknowledges a female's ownership of her body and debunks its male control.
When I was there last weekend dropping off a dozen paintings for the show, my IPhone automatically switched to Canada time.
The movie constantly switches from extreme naturalism, with perfect recreations of Bacon's haunts, to the entirely fictional rooms and traps which exist only in the artist's paintings, inhabited only by his squirming painted subjects.
