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...fuel, along with blankets and tents. Overhead, army helicopters scattered back and forth watching for emergencies, as the never-ending column rolled through its own cloud of red dust. At night the motley army dozed in blankets or thick djellaba robes, with hoods pulled over their heads, and charcoal braziers glowed brick red as they brewed the omnipresent mint...
...island is an ecological disaster area. The relatively few acres of good bottom land are owned by American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island consists largely of steep hillsides that have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from...
This ability to take a standard assignment and make something more out of it comes through most clearly in the exhibit in one work--a traditional study of a human head. William Maroni's charcoal head of a woman is a study in how to make three dimensional forms by light and shading, and also in how to bring a piece of paper to life with a pair of powerful eyes. It is a very fine, sensitive drawing and one of the high points of the show...
...charge of class day ceremonies and at that time I was painting in a studio," he remembers. "I did a lot of charcoal caricatures of the faculty. Well, we put those on the walls and had a fake commencement with a Chinese student giving the salutatory address in Chinese instead of Latin...
...Gorky is noted for composing basic shapes in drawings and then improvising on them in his paintings--in one the lines might dissolve into a wash of color; in another they would be accented by being presented against a different--colored background. This technique is apparent in Calendars, a charcoal drawing in the exhibition where ambiguous forms interweave and recede into the background. Although Gorky's manipulation of abstract shapes is imaginative, his portraits display a more impressive versatility. Portrait of Vartoosh (his sister with whom he fled from Turkish Armenia) makes use of uncommonly bold pencil lines that stand...