Word: crayons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are numerous ways to teach art. The typical art school approach stresses techniques, such as the use of oil paint, a charcoal crayon or a lithographic press. Alternatives include allowing students to work in teams with a series of visiting artists on specific projects. Or they can be left completely alone with certain equipment to do as they please...
...leaves both of them, Cesar and David have become best friends. This is one of the consequences of living, as all the characters do, in an airbrushed world, in which everyone and everything is stylized and charming. No stray marks, no smudges, no coloring outside the lines in this crayon book. Every man seems to keep a beautiful mistress of firm breasts and docile character. David's down and out artist friends have that fashionably seedy look which has replaced plaids on the Fly Club veranda. One can hardly blame characters for their easy attraction to each other...
...that family, as with all those he has visited. Coles got the youngsters to reveal themselves by asking them to draw with the crayons he carries everywhere; to one child, he became not Dr. Coles but the Crayon Man. He has taped hundreds of hours of conversation to study at home and to reproduce in his books, and he has tried to learn about people not only from their words but from "a nuance, a gesture, a way of looking." He takes photographs, too. "to hold near me and help guide my mind (and I hope my heart) a little...
They may also be more despairing, as a ghetto youth called Peter revealed in a drawing he made for Coles. With a black crayon, he traced circles within circles. In the black center of them all, he inscribed an X, and all around the picture he drew the shattered parts of a human body: two faces, an arm and five legs. A stunned Coles listened in silence to Peter's explanation: "It's that hole we dug in the alley. If you fall into...
...through anything?as Coles found out when he went along on the first day of enforced integration in 1960 and watched her brave mobs and their profanity to enter an all-white school. By the time that day came, Coles had known Ruby for several weeks, partly through her crayon pictures. Whenever she drew white children, they came out taller than she, whatever their height in real life. Her white children had carefully drawn features and the right number of fingers and toes, while she pictured herself as lacking an eye, or perhaps an ear or an arm. "When...