Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bloodcurdling prospect, few opponents have been blatantly rooted against. When Gymnast Koji Gushiken of Japan edged Peter Vidmar by 25 one-thousandths of a point in the all-around competition, and Gushiken cried the tears of a 27-year-old warrior who had been holding fast with more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able to square accounts (2-1) with those Taiwanese Little Leaguers, all grown up, without excessive jingoism at Dodger Stadium. Swivel-hipped Mexican Walker Ernesto Canto pleased everyone in the Coliseum with his grand sombrero. Admittedly, that "U.S.A...
...scratched the name Christopher in yellow chalk on the pavement at Bermuda's Royal Navy base. In red, next to this makeshift memorial, he wrote "Marques." A single yellow rose was placed beside the young boy's name and a bouquet of red and white carnations by that of the ship. Only then did Polish Captain Jan Sauer talk about how he and his schooner Zawisza Czarny rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Marques, the stately square-rigger that sank near Bermuda last week killing 17 sailors and trainees, their captain, Stuart Finlay...
Through them we are made privy to the sight of Rubens inventing half a dozen variations on a given arm until the right one clicks; to that of Watteau, infatuated with the silky passage of red chalk over paper, building up his stock of memory images and usable prototypes for later consumption. Looking at drawings seems an even more private affair than studying paintings. Drawings never lie about skill...
This age group is relatively fortunate, however; it escapes blame--by a margin of several babysitters--for the Nehru collar, Bell Bottoms, paper dresses, peace symbol neckties, and chalk-white lipstick...
...works are as schematic as engineering diagrams. Others, including his famous study of two skulls cut across their cranial vaults, are done with an exquisite realism of tone and shading that rivals the most delicate passage in his studies of inanimate nature. Others still, like the wonderfully plastic red chalk drawing of a naked man seen from the back, can hardly be distinguished in aesthetic intention from his figure drawings for paintings. In short, what drawing conveys is never subordinated to style, even in the work of this most consummate of graphic stylists...