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...outstanding 20th century caricaturist, from David Low to Ronald Searle and David Levine, who doesn't owe something fundamental to him. Most people know him only through his prints, those distillations of vengeance in which, through a long career, Daumier impaled the dignitaries of bourgeois France on his lithographic crayon. No greater visual satirist ever lived; none, one may be fairly sure, ever will...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...book's front and back covers basically serve as an answer key, showing examples of the "real colors" of tropical birds and animals. Denying every child's Right to Free Choice of Crayon, the author declares that the examples are provided because "knowing how to recognize key field marks...can spell the difference between frustration and enjoyment." Just in case your five-year-old is planning to write a National Geographic piece on the Brazilian jungle...
Negri adds that feedback from these "non-traditional" crayon enthusiasts has been positive: "They don't feel childish coloring these because they're so sophisticated...
Okay, but what about the Cambridge-area youth who's not into sophistication? Does he or she have to labor over a line drawing of the prehistoric Doedicurus, with a stubby "raw sienna" crayon? Or is there hope for kids who want to savor their childhood--and their neon Crayolas--for a few more years...