Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By placing us in their laps, Kurosawa invites us to contemplate this fact: every action we take has its effect on people we cannot see from our normal positions as groundlings. But in lifting us to these heights, he has, miraculously, not distanced our emotions. Somehow, each figure in the...
His landscapes, particularly the views of urban San Francisco that form the larger part of his output in the '80s, are an altogether different matter. The bright city on its blue bay has always been a happy hunting ground for purveyors of seagull-and-cable-car kitsch. But Thiebaud's...
In part this is an optical effect--that of the telephoto lens, which replaces perspective recession with the layering of planes. Thiebaud keeps a telescope in his house, and prompts himself by looking through it. In paintings like Curved Intersection, 1979, streets rear up like the skycrapers that line them...
His ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the...
Nearly everybody, including Grimm, agrees that raising the entire Titanic would be both technologically and financially unthinkable. Yet at least one salvage expert may be ready to give it a try. He is Britain's John Pierce, who designed an array of inflatable canvas bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior...