Word: crayon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN Mr. Koussevitsky presents the "Pines of Rome" with a canned nightingale as a member of his orchestra, he does not create an effect to be condemned for its novelty as realism. And if anyone were to paste grandfather's own moustache upon his crayon portrait in the parlor, the achievement would have tradition enough in the stage realism of a century ago, when real water-falls might be seen gushing from a hole in a canvas drop during the course of a spectacular and dripping melodrama. In many details of illusion the twentieth century harks back to the resources...
...specialty Division, novelty acts and instruments of unusual variety will be considered. Such acts would include clog dancing, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing. Xylophone, accordion, Hawaian guitar, saw, and the like...
...when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...children, from 6 to 16, are recommended, each month, by their teachers. They are admitted to his class on trial; none but those whose abilities are exceptional are invited to continue. Those so invited are given, not instruction, but opportunity. They have their choice of media -water color, oil, crayon, charcoal, clay or soap (for sculpture). Last week, an exhibition of their work was held at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan...
While the exhibition consists principally of drawings of members of the Faculty, several of Mr. Grosser's friends are treated in charcbal or crayon. There are also on view a number of still life studies in the nude...