Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The time is not far distant when the subject and the canvas will pass on a moving model before a line of artists, each a specialist in his own line. One to paint the nose and the next the mouth, and so on."
Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites...
Abraham Manievich, native of Russia, resident of New York City, had finished painting. He stepped back, squinted, scowled. The canvas before him, good though it was, did not warm his esthetic zones. Several days later he was painting again on the same canvas, but on the other side. Pleased, he...
With the aid of this panel, the painting was removed entirely from the canvas, a new gesso foundation was applied, and the paint was replaced as it had been. In all, the operation took a year and a half of the most delicate work. The results were amazing to students...
Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says he.