Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The big spring exhibition at London's Tate Gallery, "The Pre-Raphaelites," has been a roaring popular success. In attendance it has been surpassed at the Tate only by exhibitions of John Constable and Salvador Dali-fittingly, since it rivals the intense Englishness of the former while competing with...
And where is Seurat (Mandy Patinkin)? Everywhere. Finishing a hat, making trees and boats appear with a wave of inspiration, forsaking his mistress and their child to remain faithful to the only dots that matter: those in his painting. "I am not hiding behind my canvas," he declares. "I am...
Seurat was the wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would...
Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes...
After each bout of shelling, patients flock to their doctors complaining of stomach pains and headaches, symptoms of stress. Though in some neighborhoods canvas sheets have been hung across streets to block the view of snipers, only the brave venture out at night. Maurice Moyse, 82, proprietor of a French...