On Inherent Vice [Artforum] It is obvious by now that Paul Thomas Anderson isn't making individual movies so much as building
an oeuvre block by block — the sturdiest, most resilient body of work by a big - time American director since Stanley Kubrick died and Martin Scorsese ran out of steam.
Indeed, Baldessari's irreverence for the sanctity of art permeates his
oeuvre, whether it be negating all but a corner of a Parmigianino masterpiece, mocking the great art critic Clement Greenberg with his own words, parodying the color - field painters
by «floating» large rectangular
blocks of color outside the second - story window of his home (Floating: Color [1972]-RRB-, or pairing Goya's catastrophic texts from his Disasters of War series with everyday objects like a paper clip.