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...eclecticism?if he is like the Buddha, then he is a decidedly Renaissance Siddhartha?stems from an autodidact's caprice. As an artist, he has felt his way to artistic nirvana through experimentations in brushwork, ink tones, language and the magic that happens when all three are harmoniously combined. He graduated with a degree in English literature from Singapore's Nanyang University before becoming an artist and holding his first exhibition at the city-state's National Library in 1973. He converted to Buddhism that year, and his spiritual epiphany made him give up painting for four years, when...
...Watson's distinct black and white brushwork reduces things to their essentials, leaving just enough to establish place and convey the character's emotions. Katharine Washington's face is made of an inverted pentagon with two dots and five strokes for features, but her range outdoes that of many real actresses. Watson could give lessons in the economics of cartoon characterization. "Dumped," has an even more interesting look, with a gray wash, and slightly degraded lines that come either from rough paper or hard pencil...
...Reading "Stripburek" gives the impression that the Iron Curtain resulted in a kind of comix Galapagos where the avant-garde, poetical and parable possibilities of comix evolved in unexploited splendor. Danijel Zezelj's "Petrified Tree" uses high-contrast, slashing brushwork to interpret a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find...
...beautiful and composed as they are, it is difficult to look at Rothko’s realist works in a vacuum without considering his later abstract work. His use of color and brushwork, particularly in the settings, bears a close resemblance to the colored planes to come. In “Untitled (Subway)” (1937), isolated figures—none of them apparently aware of each other’s presence—sit or stand waiting on a train platform. At right, the tracks narrow and fade into the distance; the sense of space and perspective...
...really shows a lot about his working methods, his brushwork, his technique, which makes it really valuable for study," Cooper said. "That's one of the reasons we jumped at this opportunity...