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Landuyt sees all nature as made up of a limited number of "essential shapes," and these are the subject of his paintings. He favors the rounded, horizontal shapes, so that a man's head takes on the look, not of an egg, but of a mushroom. "This makes my...
A great coral "essential surface," painted in meticulous detail, becomes a bouquet of blood vessels. In another canvas, bits of torn flesh seem to be raining down like autumn leaves from one hell above to another hell beneath. A series of black-and-white paintings are as intricate as the...
Bomber Threat. The next day, according to an agreement quietly worked out by the U.S. and Russia, there occurred in the seas off Cuba one of the strangest scenes in maritime history. U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings...
Toughness & Tenderness. "Be like a sponge," N. C. Wyeth said. "Sop up every experience of life, and then don't forget to wring yourself dry in expression." What Wyeth has sopped up in his 45 years is the vast interior of a geographically limited world in which "every hill...
Into the Bull's-Eye. To perfect his passing motion, Tommy hung a canvas target on a wall of his garage, eventually got so accurate that he could fire a football into the center of a 2-ft. bull's-eye from 20 yds. away. Troy High'...