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Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the "universal man," at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But he was almost as well known for his inability to see his projects through. "Alas," cried Pope Leo X, "Leonardo will never finish anything. He thinks of the end even before he has begun." As a result, while some 6,000 pages of his notes and casual sketches survive, there are only 15 known Leonardo paintings-and some experts place the number as low as nine...
Author Mackay, a 21-year-old British girl who shares a drab walk-up over a London launderette with her 23-year-old draftsman husband, an infant daughter, her mother, a dog and three sullen cats is the most precocious and prolific ornament in a new British literary clique that might be called the Sad Young Girls. Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad-and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it. Author Mackay's hero...
...vocalist and with Keeley Smith. Along with some other songs, Stardust was extinguished in just about every possible variation. In the process, most other noxious music was extinguished too. Now, after ten months of treatment, Donald Morton is getting ready to go back to work as a draftsman. He has innocuous tapes that he can play if he ever feels a seizure coming on. Today Donald Morton can even abide Abide With...
...Equipped only with his talent and humor, he has become one of Boston's leading artists and has had successful shows also in Washington and New York. Alcalay's most recent works are ink drawings on rice paper, a painstaking medium in which he shows his ability as a draftsman...
...abstract with memories," was Paul Klee's artistic credo, and he propelled 20th century art away from the imitation of nature toward the imitation of the human mind. He was mainly a draftsman, and his sharp pen point pricked out tense traceries of squiggles dots and arrows that are hieroglyphs of the heart. Now fully published in English as edited by his son, Klee's diaries sketch the memories that his art made abstract...