Word: easel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paint, the opacity and admitted ugliness of many of his color choices, and the debris (ranging from sand to nails and cigarette butts) that he often embedded in the surfaces of his paintings. These material qualities, together with the fact that he worked on the floor rather than an easel and didn’t so much paint per se as splash paint down onto the canvas, letting gravity do most of the work for him, suggest a reading of Pollock’s work as a kind of debasement of painting itself. And according to some scholars, this material...
Luckily enough, I had a chance to do all three of these things Tuesday afternoon in my summer school drawing class. As the model wandered the compositions at the end of class, she indeed saw on my easel the “different perspective” she had been seeking. Standing directly, if lopsidedly, on the shoulders of Picasso’s infamous red skies, I had used my newfound artistic license to make her lips green and mysteriously proportioned her legs to be roughly the same length as her neck. (Though perhaps I am giving myself...
...divided his time between New York City and New England, seeking out the unfashionable architecture and empty countryside that appealed to him. Having trained and worked as a commercial artist, Hopper had a methodical approach which may explain the deadpan air of his works. He didn't take an easel and paint out in the open, but went on the road looking for subjects and making sketches. His pictures were carefully composed back in the studio. But his juxtaposition of elements was sometimes odd: urban buildings and their inhabitants seem set down in fields, or surrounded by forests. His figures...
Although unveiled on an easel, the portrait—featuring Cox’s famously bushy-eyebrows and trademark red bow-tie—will eventually hang in a HLS classroom that has yet to be determined...
It’s Friday night, and Roland O. Lamb ’06 is in front of an easel. In this second story room in Adams Art Space, far from the entryway parties, studio space and supplies are available to the public, and, thanks to Lamb, Friday night is Art Night...