Word: crayon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnish children, who had the most impressive collection, had used crayon in high, hot keys. The Scottish and English showed strong influences of modern art: they had obviously been to art galleries. The Swedes and Norwegians were neat, sure and uninspired. The French were the most elaborate...
Like many a U.S. school, Moscow's P.S. 29 is big and boxlike. Pigtailed scholars play hopscotch outside its walls, and butterfly collections hang unnoticed beside crude crayon drawings in its corridors. Each room has large portraits of Lenin and Stalin. "What's the difference between them?" a TIME reporter asked a first-grade class. An eager little girl answered: "Lenin is dead. Stalin...
...pages of his small black Japanese army notebooks with entries. He had been a soldier; he was dying as a soldier. The last entries concerned food and hunger. On the last two days, he mentioned pains in his stomach and legs. His last entry was scrawled in red crayon: "Heaven will preserve Japan and the Emperor...
...revealing foreword to the show's catalogue, Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that...
Everyone, even an art critic, has his own way of valuing pictures. Nils Nilsson Skum, a Laplander, values them according to one rule-of-thumb: how many reindeer do they show? His own crayon drawings sometimes have hundreds. He figures that must be why three Swedish museums own them. It was not the reason that Manhattan's Museum of Natural History put his pictures on exhibition last week. The Museum had found a primitive of the likes of upstate New York's octogenarian painter "Grandma" Moses (TIME...