Word: easel
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...studio of Andrew Wyeth the Painter contains nothing else but what he's working on," wrote Troy. "In the center of the room sits Mr. Wyeth with a large easel in front of him. Every once in a while Mr. Wyeth gets up and walks to a mirror hanging on the wall. The first time he did this I asked him why. He answered, 'For some reason you can see the picture more clearly in the mirror than you can just looking at it.' Mr. Wyeth stepped aside and I looked into the mirror myself. Sure enough...
...afternoon, they cast votes about once an hour. First, they reached a vote of nine not guilty, three guilty. Then, it shifted to ten not guilty, two guilty. At one point, the breakdown shifted to seven not guilty, five guilty. This morning, jurors sent several notes: They needed an easel with a flip-board to visualize their arguments. They wanted a second VCR to review evidence more closely. "I've seen the video too many times - the first time was too many," said the lone female juror who agreed to be interviewed after the trial. One key piece of evidence...
...former painter, Lux, 38, brings her images to life with the attention to form, shape and color that she learned at the easel. The artistry begins at the photo shoot, but her signature style--the brushstrokes of her new medium--comes later, at the computer. First she strips out the background and replaces it with a quiet setting--a grassy field, an abandoned building--from her personal stash of paintings and pictures. Then she erases any object that crowds the picture, like a tree or toy, so the child appears to be part of a dream. "I don't care...
...door. Basira, a thin 8-year-old whose obligatory white head scarf is actually a cotton dish towel printed with Korean characters, stands before the class. She is learning to read today's lesson, which the teacher has written out on a makeshift blackboard propped up on a wobbly easel. "A vegetable should be washed before it is eaten," she reads aloud as she slowly traces each word with her fingertip. Her teacher beams, and her classmates applaud...
...California, only to begin again when Matter returned to the East Coast. Pollock sent an early drip painting to the Matters as a belated wedding present.Although these events may have been mere coincidences, the visual evidence strongly suggests that the genesis of the “death of the easel painting” owes much to Matter.In the final room of the show, the controversial paintings themselves are relatively small. Falling in what is described as “the inner realm” of size for Pollock paintings, most are not much larger than a piece...