Word: brushworks
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...from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this is the only evidence of their presence. These tiny shadows are duplicated in Belvedere facsimiles...
...Escadrille unanimously announced: "We will allow nothing to stop us from carrying on the work upon which we have set out." Next it painted an orange circle upon each of its planes, painted a charging black bull buffalo within, and zoomed off with more bombs. Critics admired the brushwork of Captain Lansing and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in American-Parisian junior art circles. Captain James ("Red") Mustane's technique was declared so faulty as to have produced a sea lion instead of a bison...
...Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze...