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Matisse's charm lies chiefly in the skill with which he achieves the freshness of a sketch in his finished paintings. This fact is clearly brought home to the spectator as he looks at the "Tate de Femme" hung over the charcoal drawing of "La Vase de Chine" in this exhibit...
...contact with the common Indian native I would say that if Gandhi is trying to be a common native himself he doesn't "brush" his teeth. Most natives are quite particular about washing their teeth and mouths. But instead of a brush they use a forefinger and some charcoal on their teeth, and two fingers to lave the tongue, going far enough back to tickle the throat into a convulsion, and of course water to rinse...
...Painters & Sculptors gallery last week together with some splendid" line drawings and at least one excellent landscape. There were many other pictures strongly reminiscent of the advanced striving's of a Businessmen's Art Class. In a book of reproductions of his paintings entitled CIOPW (Charcoal, Ink, Oilcolors, Pencil, Watercolors) he solemnly included little figures he had scrawled on the back of publishers' royalty checks...
...British painter not represented at Pittsburgh last week was Augustus John who entered the week's news by finishing, after three years of hastily snatched sittings, a portrait of fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Between the time the face was sketched in charcoal and the final varnish was applied Governor Norman's beard changed from grey to white...
...Though reputable artists do not color photographs, as a labor saving device many throw the reflection of a photograph on a blank canvas by means of a magic lantern, block in the rough outline of the sitter's pose with charcoal...