Word: canvasing
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"Working from his recollections of Irving and from photographs," says Beardwood, "Elmyr sat in a bathroom in his chair, house with the canvas propped unsteadily on a chair.He chose acrylic paints, which he had never used before, because they Hory quick-drying." Working at an extraordinary pace, De Hory finished...
In 1899, when he was 56, James sat for a portrait by his young cousin Ellen Emmet. The painting, which James varnished himself and hung in his dining room, showed an Old Master, solemn if not portentous, massively trussed in a beige waistcoat and dark suit with a heavy-knotted...
The weekend in New Orleans was billed as a super sports spectacular. When all the drumbeating and body crunching were over, however, the result was a pair of super slaughters. First, Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier bludgeoned Challenger Terry Daniels to the canvas five times before the referee mercifully ended the...
Two Female Models on Apache Rug is painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. Nothing is fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold...
Peckinpah could have made a great film if he worked as broad a canvas as he's used to. He clearly feels that both the church and an amorphous state represent attempts only at making problems more palatable. Their representatives here are a noxious minister and an ineffectual sheriff, both...