Pat Steir at Cheim and Read. (New York).(Brief Article)

Art in America | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

In his Natural History, Pliny tells the story of the painter Protogenes, who tries to depict a dog frothing at the mouth. Eventually, the enraged artist hurls a sponge soaked with paint at the image and accidentally achieves the effect he had hoped for. Thus, a particular form of action painting entered the Western canon. Pat Steir is a distinguished heir to this tradition, in which freely handled pigment has the power to switch back and forth between abstraction and naturalism.

Steir has been experimenting with the liquidity of paint since the late 1980s. She ...

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