Peter Saul: Michael Duncan recounts how a parcel filled with crayon drawings addressed to Matta led to Peter Saul's 1961 debut at Allan Frumkin's Chicago gallery. (First break).(Brief Article) From: Artforum International | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Duncan, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2001 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

TEEMING WITH POOP, spew, blood, guts, and jism, Peter Saul's visceral, virtual-toon paintings pop off the wall and go straight for the eyeballs. The proper response is to duck and cover, but the comic-book insults and all-round humiliations--evidenced in images of public executions, orgies, and massacres--have already grabbed you and are busily inverting tropes, violating taboos, and facilitating every kind of social and cultural heresy. Finding an art-world niche for this guy hasn...