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...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...
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...
...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...