Word: brushwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zoffany. The elegant composite result (see opposite page) displeased the Hanoverian monarchs because of the prominence it gave to visiting Englishmen, even though it reproduced more than a dozen masterpieces of Italian art. Later scholars did blow ups of each of the copied paintings and found that the varied brushwork of early masters was imitated with a genius forger's fidelity...
...DEREK BOSHIER, 27, invents jazzily colored bewilderments that he calls "geo-art." Portsmouth-born Boshier was baffled by math in school, but found in art a personal arithmetic. His colors are rainbow, his brushwork invisible, his imagery a camouflage that creates the illusion of depth while flatly defying the painting's artificial edge. A modest but highly confident chap, Boshier says: "All the images I use have very much to do with presentation, the idea of projection-rather like the phrase '20th Century-Fox presents' in the movies. These images come from a social condition or setup...
Agony in a Yawn. A hallmark of the collection is its focus on the well-painted picture with perfect brushwork. Nothing among Simon's pictures looks unfinished or sloppy. "Simon's primary consideration is esthetic quality without regard for periods," says Richard Brown, director of the Los Angeles County Museum. "And he lives with it just that way, hanging a Van Dyck alongside a Gorky in his office, a Memling alongside a Degas at home. This takes courage and taste, because it means holding the bat full length, not shortening...
Graham Sutherland began his career as an engineer, and underneath his soft brushwork there still are ruled lines that lend a cubistic solidity to his work. He has designed posters, ceramics, a tapestry for the new Coventry cathedral. His portraits of Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook are masterful interpretations of character. But when Sutherland works impulsively, he always returns to surreal scenes of natural forms, 25 of which went on view last week in Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co. galleries...
...Daubigny, said that his paintings were just "rough drafts." He continued: "It is really too bad that this landscape painter, who possesses such a true, such a just, and such a natural feeling, is satisfied by an impression and neglects details to this extent." Scornfully, Gautier noted that the brushwork was "merely spots of color juxtaposed...