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...flowing brushwork and radiant color scale of Renoir exact joy from an artist and very nearly limit him to that. Clackens' work in the last two decades of his life included fewer sombre or dressed-up studies, more scenes of outdoors and summer. On a Long Island beach he painted early bathing girls in a bobbing timorous ring in blue water. He caught the gaiety of later swimmers from Long Island to St. Jean...
...third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...
...Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than any of the impressive books in the series, Art Without Epoch gets at a new popularizing technique...
Both Negro Author Turpin and Negro Author Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered...
...aspects of England are expressed in this School, all the Englishman's love of his land and sea, even for nature in her wilder forms abroad. The paleness and the delicacy of brushwork, compared to the usual heavy water colors of today, was used for a special reason. It was their idea to transmit by water color, as no other medium can, the clearness and depth of the air and the translucence of color and light...