Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Kilpatrick likened individual thinking to the painting of a picture on canvas. He said:
"We paint into our pictures exactly what we hold in thought, and just as the artist changes his canvas by a stroke of the brush here and there . . . so each one of us may paint and regulate his own world and experiences for good by refusing to admit the carnal...
The fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is...
The first Dali canvas to attract general U.S. attention was shown at last summer's Century of Progress Exhibition under its official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over...
Karl Hofer, winner of the second prize of the recent Carnegie International exhibition, and August Macke, one of the many talented young artists killed in the war, are far more objective in their approach. They have something of the cold Latin logic in their art and are more interested in...