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poon

(po͞on)

Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood formerly used for masts and spars.

[Sinhalese pūna, perhaps of Dravidian origin.]

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poon

(puːn)

1. (Plants) any of several trees of the SE Asian genus Calophyllum having lightweight hard wood and shiny leathery leaves: family Clusiaceae

2. (Forestry) the wood of any of these trees, used to make masts and spars

[C17: from Sinhalese pūna]

poon

(puːn)

slang Austral a stupid or ineffectual person

[C20: from English dialect]

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Noun	1.	poon - wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars poon - any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
	2.	poon - any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood Calophyllum, genus Calophyllum - genus of tropical evergreen trees poon - wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars Alexandrian laurel, Calophyllum inophyllum - East Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers; coastal areas southern India to Malaysia tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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For many, the name Larry Poons will never signify anything but his classic dot paintings of the early '60s.

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Some of the more dimensional work, such as Dream Object (Poons' sculpture), 1997, and Magic Hat, Rabbit, and Magic Box, 1996, bring to mind large, slightly scary versions of a child's first attempts at fashioning clay representations of objects.

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Indeed, looking at this book, I began to wonder whether Kahn is, in fact, a landscape painter, or more of a Color Field artist in the tradition of Larry Poons or Jules Olitski.

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One assumes that he had been impressed by the vibrant color and formal clarity of the work of artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland - and perhaps the dot paintings of Larry Poons as well - but there are some fundamental differences.

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Recently, a spate of East Coast exhibitions focusing on the work of Caro, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons provided an opportunity to take another look at this singularly maligned movement.(5)

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Not to mention that Larry Poons was making remarkable drip paintings around 1970, underrated works for which Steir's paintings look rather like warm-up exercises.