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...rarely loses, not because the answer is so obscure but because it's so obvious. At an easel, he writes his answer, leaving the word to hang like a biohazard warning sign: EFFICIENCY. "Everything is efficient," he says. "We're so skewed toward efficiency that we've lost our sense of humanity. What we need to do is to bring back a sense of the sacred...
...respectful of the past and concentrate on certain well-established forms and techniques. But during the Meiji era (1868-1912), modernism was introduced from the West, knocking major dents in this rigid system with an emphasis on innovation, individualism and the search for new forms. Japanese artists, emulating European easel painting, began to produce portraits and still lifes in oil -- new subjects in a new medium. Later in the 20th century and especially after World War II, some continued to keep up with modernism's evolutionary twists and turns through surrealism and paint-splashing abstract expressionism...
...Fragonard is an exasperating puzzle. He rarely signed his works; dating them is still a cause of scholarly spats. In early 19th century biographies, "the good Papa Frago" was often described as a cheerful, round-faced little man, ever smiling and carefree -- a kind of idiot savant of the easel. Yet it seems that he was also riven with self-doubt, constantly redoing canvases and often failing to complete commissions. But Fragonard's inner self remains inscrutable. Contemporary references are surprisingly few and unrevealing. If he wrote any letters, none survive. And he stares out enigmatically in only a handful...
...result, says Livingstone, North "came into the NSC as an easel carrier and ended up as the world's most powerful lieutenant colonel." Witnesses before the Iran-contra committee have testified that they got a strong impression North was working more for Casey than for his nominal bosses, McFarlane and his successor as National Security Adviser, John Poindexter. "Covert actions were pretty much left to Casey and ((CIA Deputy Director)) John McMahon, with little if any top-level discussion or review," says one former Administration policymaker. According to this official, even Reagan was cut out of the loop: "The President...
...easel, Matthews has painted in many styles, ranging from figurative portraits to Jackson Pollack gesture paintings. But in the past fews, years he's been working on abstract investigations of the square, some of which hang on the stockroom walls. "What brought about the geometrical painting was a color theory course I took at the Art Institute. You can go on forever with this work," he says...