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September 02, 1993 - Tracking Changes of the Season812 "WORD EQUATIONS" By Wilson McSeath ACROSS 1 Repast 5 Prepare to mail 10 Debilitates 14 Slangy negative 18 A Lamb 19 Down source 20 Of a pelvis bone 22 Bakery worker 23 Wood plus path (Sinclair Lewis' "Cass ") 25 Male plus Adm. Nimitz (Vermont city) 27 Infinity 28 Believer 30 Ester 31 Calms 32 Invoice 33 Wove 34 USN vessel 35 St. —: Windward Island 36 Denims 37 Leafy recess 40 Spread plus pasture (American financier) 42 Drolle 45 Young ry salmon 46 Aperture 47 Old one, in Berlin 48 Pit 49 Pedro's aunt 50 Antlered animal plus courage (Chicago suburb) 54 Style of painting 55 Striped 57 Friendly filles 58 Battered cars 59 Approaches 60 Tommy's guns 61 Kind of wind 62 Authors Anya and Ernest Thompson 64 Bloodhound's guide 65 "Finders —" 67 Mountain lakes 68 Song lyrics plus value (English poet) 70 Posed 72 Mesabi products 73 Advertising award 75 Naturalness 76 Gamma leader 77 Stout's cousin. 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Name Addre t City_ State Zip LArea Code _ Phone THE SOUTHAMPTON PRESS I SEPTEMBER 2, 1993 i i Focus on Nature Tracking By Paul Stoutenburgh The summer is slipping away before us. We've just finished dinner out on the deck overlooking the bay. Only one sail- boat is in view. In the beach grass a mockingbird is hunting insects. By now everyone must have their own neighbor- hood mocker, for they have spread throughout our island as readily as the now common house finch. The big difference between these re- latively new arrivals is that the mock- ingbird does not seek company like the finches that always seem to be travel- ing in groups. A pair is fine during the nesting season, but let winter come and it's all for one. It's then you'll see the sin- gle mocker guarding his favorite berry bush or tree from any invaders who might have eyes for his winter cache. I mentioned that our mocker was hunting: what he was actually doing was looking amongst the grasses for grasshoppers. These are basically the same grasshopper we see inland except that instead of a green body and wings they are sand colored, a camouflage trick that makes them almost impossi- ble to see until they move. To find these often overlooked insects, the mocking- bird uses a trick that helps scare them up so that they can be caught more eas- ily. The bird runs along in the grass, op- ening and closing its wings and startling any insect nearby into movement. Once the prey moves, the bird zeroes in for its meal. About this time each night the swal- lows come to the beach. I'm sure there are special places they feed throughout the day; this is one of their places to Changes of the Season The large cecropia caterpillaris one of the odder - looking denizens of the East End landscape at this time of year. —Paul Stoutenburgh Photo hunt before nightfall. Like so many other things in the natural world, each activity has its time and place. Some- thing in or around the beach must come out or hatch out just before dark and the swallows know it. A thoughtful reader called me about a huge caterpillar she found eating her rhododendrons. It was so big that she said she could hear it chewing. Well, my hearing isn't that good but I'll take her word for it. As a matter of fact, I went to her home to see this huge caterpillar. Sure enough it was a big fellow, four inches long and about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. It had a fascinating greenish- blue color to it and was busy chewing away on a branch of rhododendron she had cut. On its body it had short stalks of green topped with red and yellow. Its suction - cupped feet were baby blue in color. It looked like something out of a science fiction magazine. Of course, all the grandchildren were delighted with it and even some of the adults seemed to take a guarded interest. We put it in a small unused aquarium with its rhod- odendron branch and some water and waited and watched. This cecropia moth is one of the large silk moths and so we were all attentive, watching it spin its spindle- shaped red- dish cocoon. It was fascinating to see. As it spun the silken home around itself, the caterpillar seemed to get smaller and as it covered itself up we could still see it spinning inside. Later the magic of caterpillar to moth will occur. Imagine the transformation that takes place within that cocoon! When the six and a half inch moth does emerge it will be wrinkled and wet like a newborn bird but given time it soon spreads its wings and flies. The large antennae of these moths provide them with a detection system that can pick up the scent of a female over a mile away. The more I see of this fascinating world of ours, the more I am amazed at its wonder and the more I want to learn about it. Author Focuses on Photorealism (Continued from Page B1) ing at the end of his new book a few younger artists who make paintings "in the style and technique of the Photor- ealists, but, "they he suggests, they are not the Photorealists." The six —Randy Dudley, Stephen Fox, Robert Gniewek, Gus Heinze, Don Jacot and Reynard Milici —will bear watching throughout the'90s, he says. "They are accessible, in the $10,000 to $30,000 range, with good work. They will give you pleasure." Just don't expect them ever to join the ranks of the Photorealists. That door is closed. As Mr. Meisel talks, pausing only to deal with his very demanding telephone, the assignment he has given himself starts to make sense. With its member- ship capped at 19, the Photorealist movement presents a relatively man- ageable challenge to the scholar. Fur- thermore, as an art form, Photorealism is extremely labor - intensive, which gives the documentarian yet another ad- vantage. Photorealists work slowly, sometimes spending six months or more on one painting. "That's the reason it was possible," says Mr. Meisel, noting that in four or five years the full complement of Pho- torealists could produce no more than about 200 works. In compiling both books, encompassing a period from 1965 to the present, Mr. Meisel had no more than 3,000 works to contend with. A Cood Living Photorealism has been good to Mr. Meisel, even as it has been good to the artists. "They have all made good livings," he says. They are, "if not affluent, finan- cially secure," he says. Financially comfortable, they also tend to be relatively free of the hassles and hysteria that can afflict the modern artist living out there on the edge. The very nature of their work has provided a powerful incentive to stick to the straight and narrow, to settle into a wholesome lifestyle. Working in a mode that does not permit an unsteady hand or a bleary eye, Photorealists are well Southampton Classic ANTIQUE' MARKET "Long Island's Largest Antique Event" SEPT. 3,4, & 5 100 DEALERS Fri. & Sat. 10 AM to 6PM Sun. LOAM to 5PM Route 27 Southampton, NY (Next to Elks Lodge) Rain or Shine 1Admiss]on $4.00 with Ad Early Bird Fri 8AM- 9:59AM: SIO (516)737 -0995 Managed by i%Ike & Cathy advised to avoid the binges and brawls by which the Abstract Expressionists and some of their more reckless descen- dants acquired their romantic image. "One thing about them," says Mr. Meisel, "is that they're all very stable, family -oriented people. I can't think of any divorces. It has been 25 years and 20 people have stayed in the same fam- ily situation since the time when we met." Nothing is perfect, of course, and the thing that galls Mr. Meisel, and that prompted him last May to address a let- ter of protest to critics at The New York Times, is the thunderous critical silence that his favorite art form inspires in the press. "Who's afraid of Photorealism ?" Mr. Meisel asks in the letter, then answers his own question: "It looks like just about everyone who perceives them- selves as an art critic." In the 25 years that he has been show- ing, supporting and documenting Phot- orealism, Mr. Meisel goes on to complain, The New York Times has basically ignored this "serious, innov- ative and influential movement." The exhibition at his gallery celebrating the publication of Photorealism Since 1980 has been no exception, he notes, though "it includes major and important work by each of the 25 artists in the book." In the text he wrote for his most re- cent book, Mr. Meisel takes the critics to task for what looks to him like a wil- lingness to equate quality in art with po- litical correctness. What Mr. Meisel perceives as the current rush to redis- tribute the rewards of artistic success so that the honor roll will better reflect the cultural diversity of the players has, in his view, led critics to the abandon- ment of a set of standards "developed over thousands of years." In condem- ning those criteria as racist, sexist, Eu- rocentric, white, heterosexual, and male - oriented, they have confused aes- thetic and political concerns. Quality, in his view, has been the fist casualty. "Someday I'll write a different kind of took," he says, "explaining the dif- ferences between aesthetically correct and politically correct." Meanwhile, he's hoping his letter will stir things up a bit. "I don't care what the reaction is," he says. "I hope they will shout back." The silent treatment is hard on the ar- tists, who would prefer a bad review to nothing at all, suggests Mr. Meisel. Yet, he adds, even as the art press keeps its silence, the Photorealist painters are "getting their due" in the major art texts and from an appreciative public. And then there are the books. They will be there long after the critics' con- descension has been forgotten, he pre- dicts. The record then will speak for itself. Meanwhile, this book, like the original, "has a lot of wonderful pictures to look at," says Mr. Meisel, "and some spicy things to think about. 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