Word: easels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN French Painter Georges Braque walked into Pablo Picasso's cluttered Montmartre studio on the Rue Ravignan 49 years ago, he saw on the easel a painting unlike anything he had ever imagined. Said Picasso fiercely, "This is going to cause a big noise." And Picasso was right; his crosshatched galaxy of pink nudes, Demoiselles d'Avignon, ranks today as a turning point in art. But at the time, all that flabbergasted Georges Braque could say was, "You are trying to make us drink petrol in order to spit fire...
...heat of inspiration, Vincent Van-Gogh could put in a straight eleven-hour stretch before his easel, then sit down and write: "These colors give me extraordinary exaltation. I have no thought of fatigue; I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall bring it off. I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful; I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as in a dream...
...unbothered by these mounting pressures. He stuck to his desk and his schedule, still testing his heart, his body and stamina before making a final decision about running again. At workweek's end, he went to his studio on the second floor of the White House, faced his easel and painted under a north light. It seemed that at least Dwight Eisenhower was relaxed-even if nobody else...
...dependency on his early sketches, found his inspiration directly in nature. One of his best is Oncoming Spring (opposite), a triumphal rendering of a theme that had been germinating in his mind since 1915. In a rapturous letter Burchfield described the final harvest: "Hardly had I set up my easel when a thunderstorm came up. I decided nothing was going to stop my painting, and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio, the wind holding it in place. And so I painted with my nose almost on the paper, with thunder...
...medical bulletins eliminated the phrase "without complications." He shaved standing up; barber Martin Himmelsbach cut his hair. He phoned the Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...