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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...
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.
Considering the prefight confusion and the Venezuelan government's insistence that the fight be televised on home screens, it was no surprise that the multimillion-dollar sports palace El Poliedro was only half full by fight time. Nor should it have really been a surprise when Foreman walked in...
Five minutes after the fight started, Norton was sprawled across that canvas in a daze. Nonviolent George Foreman dispatched Norton just as he had Joe Frazier and 38 other opponents -with brute force. Stalking Norton like a boxing Frankenstein, Foreman tossed aside his opponent's punches as though they...
In the current retrospective of more than 200 Giacometti sculptures, drawings and paintings at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, there is a painting that epitomizes what he meant. It is not a figure but a still life: one solitary apple on a small sideboard, painted in 1937. The color is...