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Okada works on as many as five canvases at a time, wandering from one to another in bare feet. He uses knives, fingers, pieces of wood, rollers, "and, of course, I also have brushes." When he has "a feeling of one of my dreams," he begins to paint. He has no advance knowledge of how his canvas should come out, and thus his composition can grow naturally. "Without knowing is the best way to create something," he says...
One of the first to speak up was aging Journalist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, 71. Defending a Cézanne-like blue and purple canvas called Female Nude, done by Russian Painter Robert Falk in 1922, which Art Critic Khrushchev had derided, Ehrenburg said: "You and I, Nikita Sergeevich, are getting...
Painter Karl Knaths never uses models, for the elementary reason that a model would only hamper him. "Before I start a painting," he explains, "I have an idea-or a motif-in mind. It could be a piece of a landscape or maybe a still life. From the motif you...
Among the new acquisitions currently on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is a large square canvas called Abstract Painting that seems at first glance to be entirely black. Closer inspection shows that it is subtly divided into seven lesser areas. In a helpful gallery note at...
No Horses. No one used Conestoga wagons; they were too ungainly. Smaller ones, with boxes about 9 ft. by 4 ft., were popular. They were not called prairie schooners. When deep rivers were encountered, the bottom of the boxes could be covered with canvas or hides; off came the wheels...