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Artists will, of course, use preliminary sketches as a kind of private notation but rarely are these produced for public exhibition, nor do they contain much more for the public than a satisfaction of the desire to see and possess the trivial productions of famous names.
These four artists, however, among others, are producing drawings that work as finished products. Often they relate to major works but rather than being studies, they are made after the fact, or as integral parts of a series. All four artists are known for their primary involvement in constructed objects or assemblage. Dine makes painted collages with objects attached to a canvas, Oldenburg makes intimate or exaggerated sculptures of common objects, Whitman works in film and makes objects for Happenings among other pursuits, and Talbert produces small fetishistic boxes filled with Surreal and erotic objects.
A group of charcoal sketches done between β61 have a kind of romantic, impressionistic mood, handled with great flair and a sense of tradition. The cameras and the toilet series, except for the subject matter, are executed in a style much like typical sophisticated magazine illustration, and the food drawings appear like little more than competent student exercises.
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