Word: crayons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beauty of small and supposedly unbeautiful things, but also his way of making the poem, as it goes along, a physical experience of discovery for the reader." It's hard to imagine a sixth grader intentionally attempting to evoke such a sophisticated response. It's like equating a crayon drawing of a cow with wings floating under a purple sun with a Chagall. In fact it's difficult to accept the premise that kids understand poetry much better than a definition shouted out at the beginning of my class: "words written down." Of course adults don't understand poetry very...
...Kooning is a traditional kind of draftsman, and his work with pencil or crayon always pursues an active, symbiotic relationship with his paintings. Drawing explores and refines but does not quite fix an inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended...
...content of the album isn't up to Monty Python's usual standards, the packaging is even better than the cover of the first album--which was an actual jacket for Beethoven's Seventh with the Brueghel print scratched out in black crayon and "Monty Python" scrawled across it. There really are two Side Twos on the second side of this new album, and you have to drop your needle down a few times at random to discover them. Once you've figured this out, though, the thrill is gone forever...
...enormous. By 1770, the year of his death, he had by his own reckoning completed more than 1,000 paintings and some 10,000 drawings-ranging from elaborate pastels like the 1738 portrait of Boy Holding a Carrot (which some critics argue is actually a parsnip) to swift crayon jottings of the nude. Collectors snapped up both his drawings and his rapid oil sketches, such as the vigorous and almost romantic Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs...
Some of the largest sales of the evening were: a Kokoshka crayon drawing sold for $850, a Baskin wood engraving sold for $585, and a Vassarely silkscreen sold...