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Article: Donald Sultan at Knoedler. (New York).(exhibition of poppy paintings)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Donald Sultan's massive new poppy paintings extend beyond the familiar address of fruit and flowers that preceded them. The largest of these physically intense, enveloping works are painted on grids of ordinary vinyl flooring tiles that are attached to six 4-foot-square panels of masonite, which are in turn fixed to plywood panels, cradled on stretcher bars and bolted snuggly into place. The vinyl-tile surfaces are then covered with the tar on which Sultan draws the poppy images. The floral forms are excavated and filled with a drywall mud that, when cured, is painted with vividly hued enamels. Sultan next introduces a seductive black rayon flocking, the texture of which ...
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