Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...
The Fogg is exhibiting a group of Italian and Spanish oil paintings from the Baroque period in Gallery XII. The apintings, done in the 17th and 18th centuries on canvas and panel, were chosen for the show by John Rodger Lane, a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts...
De Kooning is a traditional kind of draftsman, and his work with pencil or crayon always pursues an active, symbiotic relationship with his paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of...
They love Caldwell because she does indeed know how to put on opera. As a producer and director, she has long since proved her wit, good taste and knack for motivating stage people. She has also emerged in the past few seasons as an uncommonly gifted conductor who waddles to...
Salter is proud of the most expensive painting she has in the gallery, a landscape for $2500. It is a large canvas in a pseudo-Impressionist blurred style. The colors are muddy and depressing. The paint is so needlessly crusted that it makes you want to pick it off.