Word: brushworking
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...decorations are more elaborate. One wall is painted in the vivid colors of a stage, with tall, narrow side doors standing ajar, and leering comic masks peeking through small windows. Large central openings show gardenlike vistas. On top of the stage are small, blue glass vessels. Perspective and brushwork are so skilled that the scene has startling depth...
TIME'S cover story this week is another fast switch and another example of Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin's quick brushwork. Shepard's weightless passage through the wild blue yonder, is, of course, strictly symbolic...
...earlier works, though his palette was muted, the focus was as sharp as a photograph. Gradually, the brushwork loosened, until it seemed as if a veil had dropped between the artist and reality. His landscapes may be literal, but they are seen as if in a dream (see color), his people, almost always empty-eyed, seem to live in a trance. They are sleepwalkers, whose minds and bodies are a world apart. And for the most part, they are children, usually adolescent girls...
Dobell's portrait of Mr. Menzies is a hideous physiognomical distortion. However, TIME'S writers were as flattering with their pen pictures of our P.M. as Australia's Dobell was awry with his brushwork...
...born dean of the non-objectives school, provide an interesting guide to his development from a Fauvism that already tended towards abstraction to his eventual creation of abstract works in the most cerebral and calculating of styles. Kandinsky's early work, swirling with pure color and vivid with strong brushwork, strikes me as his most successful. When he paints flat colors enclosed in rigid outlines floating against a monochromatic background, them my dissatisfaction with the picture equals his lack of attachment to its content...