7. Another Colville: http://www.ago.net/assets/images/555/E-00734-Target-Pistol-and-Man-660.jpg …
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8. Another Colville: http://www.ago.net/assets/images/555/Colville-Horse-and-Train-660.jpg …
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9. Another Colville: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6D80EKV5hPg/T8eixIeiLnI/AAAAAAAADaY/Z8JAlf14j-U/s640/To_prince_edward_island.jpg … which inspired this Wes Anderson shot in Moonrise Kingdom: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rLHNejjtKc8/T8eiN_XcCwI/AAAAAAAADaQ/ArqC5Gw1mhk/s640/6700145069_dcd208a024_z.jpg …
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10. Here's deal with Colville: he pursued his style disquieting, subtly unnerving photo-sheened painting in heyday of abstract expressionism
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11. Colville was painting against the Clement Greenberg orthodoxy which saw narrative & representation as outmoded & superfluous
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12. Spending time with Colville's work, you realize that how absolutely nuts it is to think narrative & representation are outdated
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13. Narrative isn't a historical convention that can be thrown aside. Narrative is a fundamental function of the human mind.
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14. We're story-making animals. We look at a Jackson Pollock & we make up stories about why the artist painted as he did.
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15. As narrative exiled from painting, artists like Colville found impact spreading to film. There are 4 Colvilles in Kubrick's Shining
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16. As noted earlier, this Colville http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6D80EKV5hPg/T8eixIeiLnI/AAAAAAAADaY/Z8JAlf14j-U/s640/To_prince_edward_island.jpg … inspired scene in Moonrise Kingdom
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17. In trying to tease out Colville's narratives, impossible to ignore that as solider in 1945 he saw Bergen-Belsen shortly after liberation
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18. Very rarely in Colville do we get an fully unimpeded human face. Humanity is a species we can't look in the eye.
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19. Colville's animals in a number of paintings face us squarely, his people very rarely.
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