Word: canova
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American art audience is coming to realize what a vacuum has been created by the collapse of drawing instruction in the art schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge...
DIED. Judy Canova, 69, pigtailed, bullfrog-voiced singer and hillbilly comedian; of cancer; in Hollywood. One of the most popular radio stars of the 1940s, Canova also mugged and yodeled off-key through some two dozen movies, including Scatterbrain (1940) and Louisiana Hayride...
...Girl Now (ABC, Fridays at 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.) means to be a battle of wills and wits between a young divorcee (Diana Canova) and her haranguing father (Danny Thomas). Diana is sweet and smart, but, in the opening episode at least, it is father who knows best: he turns from Jewish mother to father confessor in record time. She must endure his sudden wisdom even as she trades toilet and underwear jokes with the rest of the cast, including her boss (Sheree North), who has an I.Q. of 190 but talks only of trysts with men who dress...
...17th century-under the influence of Rubens and Bernini-demanded more intricate, twisting, rearing, active poses for the horse in art did the pervasive influence of these creatures decline. Yet even then it was soon to be revived in the 18th century by the great Venetian neoclassicist Antonio Canova...
...antiquity and the Renaissance, Equus seen as a symbol of the transactions between nature and culture. The show also demonstrates how the influence of the animals in Venice has survived for more than seven centuries, in copies, studies, models and full-scale figures ranging from medieval miniatures to Antonio Canova's design for a monument to George Washington...