Word: brushworks
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Armed with so much valuable information, the experts must let the final version of the painting hang in the Rome church as it has for 350 years. The brushwork on the canvas is so intimately overlapped, they explained, that it would be impossible to lay bare the early layers without sacrificing the surface...
...Germany's Fritz Winter is as wild as Britain's Nicholson is mild. Yet the apparent boldness of Winter's Elevation rests on brushwork as fluent and as decisive as that of Chinese calligraphers. He is a leading figure in the expressionistic, anti-geometrical wing of abstract...
...clear success. His pictures of fledgling priests skipping rope, gossiping, romping on the beach, or playing mosca cieca† have won him an enthusiastic Italian following, as well as buyers elsewhere. Painted in whites, reds and clerical blacks, the pictures are cheerful and lighthearted; the over-casual brushwork and the repetitious patterns are excused...
...Kingsley from Arthur Koestler's novel; produced by the Playwrights' Company) dramatizes, on the whole, very well. Not only does much of it prove dramatic on the stage, but the drama has been bought at a sense-making price. The play keeps faith with the book: the brushwork is necessarily broader, but the framework has been kept intact. It remains a vivid memento of the Moscow trials, a sharp probing of the Communist mind...
...symbolism of Blume's picture-a huge, broken rock with scaffolding to the left of it and ruins to the right-is as obscure as his brushwork is precise. Blume, who at 44 looks rather like a dead-earnest Danny Kaye, believes "the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic" (TIME, Jan. 17,1949). His painting's popularity, Blume confessed last week, had him "very baffled and certainly very pleased...