Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstract painters at the Whitney showed even more brass than the sculptors. They generally displayed huge canvases, as the fashion is, but made some concession to hanging problems by favoring very tall pictures instead of very wide ones. Most followed the lead of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the proconsuls of abstract expressionism, in energetically weaving fat tangles of paint over their yards and yards of canvas. Yet taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer...
A canvas of Shady Hill residents yesterday revealed two groups among the opposition. One segment maintains that the plan, while good in theory, is unfeasible in practice, while another opposes the whole idea.
WHAT may be the West's oldest painting of the Madonna has been rediscovered in Rome's Church of Santa Francesca Romana. An expert restorer named Pico Cellini found the panel (right) under a 13th century Tuscan canvas of the same subject, which he had been commissioned to...
Cellini's first hint that he had found something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini...
The contemporary art world's judgments had a highly moral tone precisely because Manet's picture did not. In France of the Second Empire, bigness was associated with grandeur. A canvas the size of Manet's Lunch, people thought, should have some edifying theme, whether classical, historical...