Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be a mystical streak in this young playwright, but the stage is mighty barren soil for mysticism. He is certainly haunted by the long scorching annals of the Jewish experience, to which Ribman ascribes survival with suffering in a mixture too complex for revelation. His social canvas is...
"Prez," as Jones is affectionately known by staff and students alike, is jovial and easygoing-given, as he says, to "talking up a breeze." A storyteller in the Southern tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre...
Each canvas is divided vertically into two unequal parts, and the paint builds up and bubbles along the uneven line where the two parts converge. The subtle blends and shifts in color are interesting, but the works are neither exciting nor disturbing.
The terrible condition of a painting often stems from the old, rotting canvas behind it. Transferring the paint onto new canvas is such a difficult task that it is only undertaken in extreme cases. Usually a second canvas is waxed onto the original one to strengthen it. The painting is...
Thus his became a deductive, rather than an inductive technique; he would often work from a real-life model in one spot and then change rooms to work out his final painting or sculpture, allowing his mind free reign to reshape a pose according to his own sense of design...