Expected to spend the whole weekend being miserable, waiting for the antibiotic and decongestant to cut through my evil ragweed allergy turned sinus infection. Shazam! These drugs work much faster than the ones I got back in Oklahoma in the late Eighties! Twenty-four hours of moaning and trying to sleep sitting up, then 10-9-8-7-6- blasting off with cleared eustachian tubes and a mega-fix of pseudoephedrine!
The Peter Doig: Works on Paper exhibit at the Dallas Museum of art is not only rich, luminous, immediate, romantic, expressionist, and haunting. It is also a visit deep into the working process of an artist using color, composition, excellent figure drawing, and a collection of glorious influences. The DMA sneaks a peek at related paintings in the southeast quadrant gallery with Rothko, Stella, Motherwell, Still, and Gorky. The Doig works bring Diebenkorn and Thiebald, Winslow Homer, and Gauguin to mind. Doig cites Hopper, Munch, and Matisse as major influences. I laugh, thinking Gauguin has done a study of frisbee players on the beach. And there's even a pirate under a palm tree!
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