Word: canvasful
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Cap Weinberger has lionized Winston Churchill all his adult life. He has collected and read his published works many times over, and he frequently quotes the wartime British Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of...
It was also hell. In order to paint it, Beckmann developed a repertory of figures that seem literally imprisoned by the limits of the canvas. The sense of dislocation and implacable graphic firmness this involved, in works like The Dream, 1921, was surpassed by no other artist. The amputee on...
The item about the two portraits of President Nixon [PEOPLE, Dec. 10] left an impression that was unfair to one of the artists. It is not true that the former President "never did like" the painting by Alexander Clayton. When J. Anthony Wills' canvas was completed, the Nixons decided...
Their paint was like no one else's. Coat after coat was laboriously scraped back with the edge of a meat cleaver and then scumbled again until it looked weirdly provisional, a thin caking of color in the pores of the canvas. The works were gripping yet strangely distant...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on...