Word: canvasful
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There are two kinds of painting in it: straight and plate. The straight paintings-pigment on canvas-are the weaker and look like nth-generation abstract expressionism, which, in fact, they are. Their grid and curlicues come out of Matisse via Richard Diebenkorn, suffering indignities in translation: the drawing is...
When Susan Traherne (Kate Nelligan) was 17, she served as a courier with the French Resistance. It struck a harmonic chord of valor that haunts her during the rest of her frustrating life. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Plenty ranges from World War II through the '50s and '60s...
It was a classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock...
Matt's telepathic powers are useful for getting him out of all sorts of scrapes, including fitful pursuit by the dark forces from Quadris. One of this legion actually enrolls in Crestridge and shows her otherworldly qualities by unnatural rigidity of posture, persistent dilation of the pupils and a...
"Making it up" on a canvas eight feet square cannot be done outdoors. Laden with a 70-lb. pack of easel, paints, canvas and gear, Welliver trudges out in winter to find a scene and make an oil sketch. The large version is always a studio painting, and its fictions...