Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neva Makgetla '78, an active member in this year's Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), said yesterday that a recent canvas of seniors showed little support for disruption of Commencement activities, but widespread backing of a protest of some kind.
Outside the French base camp is a hastily built row of canvas shops where the entrepreneurial Lebanese sell everything from cigarettes to transistor radios. A tailor sitting at his sewing machine says he is doing "terrific business" cutting and making tailored summer uniforms. One of the bestselling items is a...
One of the most common reactions from people experiencing their first taste of modern art is, "Gee, I could have done that." They see a few bright-colored geometric shapes scattered seemingly randomly on a canvas, or splotches of paint dribbled across it, and they assume that all they need...
Monet gave impressionism the dignity of classical art, though by the turn of the century he was no longer an impressionist in the sense of working outdoors, directly from the motif. Whether his canvases, he remarked, "are painted from life or not is nobody's business and of no importance whatsoever." They were in fact painted from memory-but the span of memory was as short as the walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters...
Jim Dales, Spence Fitzgibbons and Glenn Alexander carded a trio of 76s on the scenic seaside links that look like a Watteau watercolor spread on a rather large canvas. Alex Vik and Chip Raffi went around in 82 and George Arnold and Ron Himelman both shot 84.