Word: brushworks
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...oils that make up the major part of the show cover subjects ranging from landscapes to the entrails cart of a Martinique slaughterhouse, Cooke is at his best in a half-dozen portraits. Probably the best of these is his Portrait of Ernst Benkert, executed with bold brushwork in a subdued but powerful palette...
Finished last June, the painting was the core of an exhibition at Manhattan's Alan Gallery last week. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light. His nervous, flickering brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that...
...Painter Eyuboglu spent three student years in Paris, came home to paint pale echoes of Raoul Dufy. In the last decade, he has spent more and more time in the villages of Anatolia, found much inspiration in Turkish folk art. The delicate brushwork and preference for pastel colors that marked his European apprenticeship have given way to strongly accentuated designs, contrasting glittery masses against vivid backgrounds (see opposite page...
...With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
...amazingly modern and well done, showed only the faintest trace of traditional Oriental art. Instead of stylized cherry trees and dainty bridges, Hiroshima's kids had painted a big, bustling, newly rebuilt city, with humming docks, clattering trolleys, arm-waggling traffic cops. Instead of using the old formal brushwork, they splashed on lively patterns of blazing orange, green, blue, fire-engine red. Their lines were as bold and free-swinging as any U.S. progressive schoolteacher could wish...