Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life in the government-run refugee camps located nearer Saigon is little better. The An Loi camp, on a barren plain 30 miles east of the capital, has more facilities than most because it is easily supplied from Saigon and the government has tried to make the camp a showcase...
The singer intones a long text and creates several beautiful "sand paintings" by arranging patterns of pollen, meal, crushed flowers and charcoal on a canvas of sand or buckskin. He directs the patient to sit on each painting while he conducts a ceremonial treatment, and then the paintings-and presumably...
Not any more-fortunately. In isolation, Resnick's work has developed steadily, and it now stands at an exhilarating pitch of concentration. He may not be Monet's follower, but his pictures do bear similarities to the late Monet lily ponds, not only in format -they are usually...
So, too, when Hockney tackles the least promising of subjects in French Shop, 1971. The building is all facade; nothing stirs. It is hardly more than a doll's house with a sign on it. The vacancy is such that one needs time to notice the brilliant precision with...
As the East grew populous, George Harvey felt that man-made structures like lighthouses enhanced their natural surroundings by emphatically signaling progress. But the prevailing mood changed to awe as Americans pushed westward, and it reached a climax in Albert Bierstadt's enormous canvas of the Rocky Mountains. Almost...