Word: canvasing
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...Braque was drawn to fragment his vision in the manner that became known as Cubism, after seeing Picasso's panorama of naked prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Their fractured postures impelled Braque to a further dissection of nature. He and Picasso, working together, began turning out canvases so similar that in later years they could not recall which of them had painted what. In 1912 Braque invented the paper collage, in which scraps of newsprint and ticket stubs were glued onto the canvas. When people laughed at him, he said that he was bringing art even closer...
JOSEPH GOODE, 26, carries simplification about as far as it can go. He just covers a canvas with a single color, then places on a shelf just below it a milk bottle painted the same color.
It was the season for reruns. Last fall in Chicago, it took Charles ("Sonny") Liston 2 min. 6 sec. to pluck the heavyweight crown from Floyd Patterson. Last week in Las Vegas, Liston spent 2 min. 10 sec. pounding Patterson into boxing oblivion. Like a man killing a rabbit with...
Dazed, Patterson staggered up once again, only to meet a left to the stomach and a brutal left to the head, which sent him to the canvas for the last time.
Breathing Canvas. In Plus Reversed, the two colors were put on in equal total area and in equal strength, so that the viewer is never quite sure which is the dominant one. The result is that the painting is full of movement that varies in tempo from second to second...