Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lurgat's most important contribution was the introduction of the numbered cartoon, a kind of full-scale plan on Bristol board that the weaver follows at the loom. Formerly weavers took considerable latitude with colors and even design, but in transferring Lurgat's fanciful designs to tapestry, they are given no margin at all. Each color area bears a number that corresponds to a number on a skein of wool, not unlike the popular "by the numbers" painting kits; the method gives Lurgat complete control over the finished product...
...warp is strung on the loom to serve as the foundation for weaving. The other set of threads, the colored weft, is all that is visible in the finished tapestry. The weft passes over and under the warp; each time a different colored area is indicated in the cartoon, a bobbin holding a different colored thread must be used, and the ends of the different colored threads must be tied to hold the tapestry together. A tapestry is made with the reverse, or knotted side, up. As it progresses, it is rolled on a wide wooden cylinder. The finished tapestry...
...John the Baptist would not be much missed−to judge from the scant attention it got in nearly 200 years at the academy, mostly not even on public display. Off to Sotheby's last March went the announcement that the drawing, thought to be the cartoon of Leonardo's similar painting in the Louvre, would be auctioned...
Moore showed a Peanuts cartoon depicting an icicle about to fall on Snoopy's doghouse; "I'm too ME too die," Snoopy wails, illustrating the existentialist's positive commitment. Turning to the poetry of the beat generation, Moore quoted Ferlinghetti to illistrate an exaggerated interpretation of the existentialist emphasis on activity. The poem described a young virgin wearing only a bird's nest in "a very existential place...
...elaborate restoration job performed by the Ministry of Works. But the restoration has also given the art world an extra dividend: in restoring the 16th century paintings, the ministry uncovered some rare and priceless specimens from the 15th. One official has called them as exciting as the Leonardo cartoon owned by the Royal Academy...