Word: charcoal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driver strained to see road patches that might be innocent potholes or pressure mines embedded in the highway. So far, no mines have turned up on A4, but the guerrillas have begun planting them on less secure roads, carefully masking the gouges in the paving with a layer of charcoal...
Harvey Quaytman, paintings and drawings, through Nov. 6. Charcoal and acrylic on board can be trendy mixed-media creations, but Quatyman's remain intellectual works. His simple geometric forms seem to move the color over the surface; the result is harmonious, one grasps it all at once--yet not static. Like a frozen waterfall, these paintings hold arrested motion that is just waiting to escape...
...mountains, mourning meant memorial meetings and work. Long lines of students one day walked sobbing along the main street of Kweilin with white paper wreaths for Chairman Mao. They were followed by peasants hauling grass and fodder on bamboo yokes, while motorized carts filled with building stones and charcoal lined the road. Construction is the watchword...
What they had was a major discovery-the world's only group of mural sketches by Michelangelo Buonarroti, more than 50 large drawings, done in charcoal on the rough plaster of the walls and inadvertently protected by later whitewashing against age, flaking and the 1966 flood. After several months of restoration, the discovery is being exhibited in Florence this week...
Taxing Subtleties. The art of making steel reached its peak in Japan before the 16th century. Our present technology can dump men on the moon, but it cannot match the crystalline structure, hardness, flexibility and exquisite surface pattern of these ancient blades made in charcoal forges. Compared to Nippon-tō, the swords of Europe are kitchen cutlery...