Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they got a lesson the hard way, and that they'd better brush up again on the fundamentals...
Painted in microscopic detail, often with a single-hair brush, the caravan sparkles and shines against freely sketched crags. As one critic put it, each tiny figure seems carved in jade. But like many a Western master, Ch'iu found little fame while he lived; his work had been too meticulous for the contemporary taste...
Rouault has a habit of keeping his paintings locked up in his studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...
...green of a hillside, the blue of the Mediterranean, the delicate lilt of a racing horse, the crisp lines of the Eiffel Tower, the smoke of a train or the plump pinkness of a nude are all equally his dish. Crippled with arthritis, he sometimes has to strap his brush to his hand but (like Renoir, who was also arthritic) he permits only pleasure and good taste to appear in his work...
...messes they have made and are making, then Paris will be the old place again"), but it is precisely this relaxed laziness of thought that gives him not only his sensuous warmth but his faculty to echo, like a verbatim record, whatever scenes or conversations may happen to brush up against his impressionable senses...