Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One learns nothing about real history from these paintings. Outside the gilt frames, hysteria and massacre ruled. France was continuously at war for most of Watteau's life. In the winter of 1709, men ate corpses in the streets of Paris; the French economy was wrecked by a wave...
ERENDIRA The dreamscape of a Gabriel García Márquez story is like the vision of a Chagall on peyote. Violence and magic live there, in a desert village that holds the secret to every folktale and human atrocity. There a rose can glow in the dark, an...
Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops...
Painters have always collected other painters' drawings, to give themselves access to the code of imaginations they admire. Yet the first museum show of Old Master drawings (let alone ones by living artists) seems to have happened only about 100 years ago, in Berlin in 1881. It is a...
Leonard's world splashes across a crowded Dickensian canvas where social strata collide, and the gravedigger waits by the charnel house. In this underworld, usually located in downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know...