Word: crayons
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...drawings are strangely affecting. Leonardo's Leda-possibly a study for the painting that has been lost-has a sensual rhythm not often revealed by Leonardo. Rembrandt's landscapes and village scenes are masterful mixtures of meticulousness and freedom. Holbein could almost carve with his crayon, and Rubens, with his delicate and flowing line, could transform an act of drudgery into an act of grace. Somehow, the workings of genius are never more clear than in drawings of the quality of the collection at Chatsworth...
...drew the unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another drawing, the child might be dead and the love would turn from tenderness to shattering grief. Death...
...TIME, June 8, gave me a pain-I laughed so hard over the cartoons "For Crayon Out Loud." (MRS.) SOPHIE FLAGSTAD La Mesa, Calif...
...appalled that a magazine of TIME'S caliber would stoop so low as to print "For Crayon Out Loud" [June 8]. It is a product of warped, sadistic minds...
...more than 20 years, the New York Daily News has waged implacable war against reckless drivers. Its weapon: the singularly effective crayon of Editorial Cartoonist Clarence D. Batchelor. His "Inviting the Undertaker" series has warned against passing on curves, exceeding the speed limit, taking "one for the road"-all varieties of danger on wheels...