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What do you think? Lynn Paraskeva Lynn Paraskeva. SandhiGold SandhiGold. Possibly the most important addition since was a stoneware punch bowl from attributed to John Crolius Jr.

Incised in cobalt blue with the name of its original owner, Elizabeth Crane, and with leaves and flowers in an exuberantly swirled pattern, the vessel is a tour de force of thinly potted, salt-glazed stoneware, at 15 inches in diameter one of the largest of the genre. Schorsch and the Kopps said that Mr. Cohen's richly detailed ceramics are memorable for the intricacy of the painted or figural decoration. Two arresting stoneware jugs by Wallace Kirkpatrick of Anna, Ill.

One jug, from , combines snakes slithering in and out of the surface of the bottle with Union soldiers toasting and singing. The other is covered with snakes and includes a map of the Arkansas, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

The rarest object in the exhibition is an apple-shaped cider cooler, a redware precursor of Pop Art more than 16 inches tall. I have to admit, on an intellectual level, the idea of artists making changes and taking risks is an intriguing one. If your work is selling briskly, how difficult must it be to balance your professional evolution with the fear of alienating patrons who have come to expect a particular product? But as an art buyer, I felt discomfited. I had come prepared to purchase a painting that I envisioned sitting above my fireplace.

The new pieces were not matching my fantasy. Could I step back and judge them with a fresh eye? Traditionally, the art exhibited in Vineyard galleries would not be characterized as particularly adventurous. But in more recent years, edgier and more contemporary works have been granted wall space in galleries alongside classical paintings of the coastline.

Island artists, both emerging and established, seem to be embracing change and its inherent risks as they hone their craft. While some of the paintings incorporated representational elements, some were completely abstract. Was I having a midlife crisis?

The iconic artist, who won a Grammy Award for this work, created an experimental packaging made of a transparent vacuum-form plastic case, with artworks and credits printed on three separate clear vinyl discs, one per primary color. The same image—a collage of candid photographs taken by Rauschenberg—was printed in cyan, magenta, and yellow; when the three discs are aligned, one full-color image becomes visible. One of the leading figures of American Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein is known for his appropriated comic strips— most notably war and love stories published by DC Comics— which he has painted since the s using a manual technique that gives them the appearance of commercial dot prints.

Following his tenure as lead singer of Japan—a British glam rock-inspired band active from to that proved influential on the emerging New Romantic scene—David Sylvian has been acclaimed for a longstanding and distinguished solo career at the crossroads of electronic music, progressive rock, and ambient sounds.

From the outset of his career, British artist Damien Hirst began exploring issues relating to mortality and death.

This preoccupation evolved through a series of controversial artworks represented by his medicine cabinets, dissected animals in formaldehyde, diamond skulls, and dot paintings inspired by chemical compounds.

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