Word: easels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last year a French painter who was working in Tahiti noted the fascination with which native children crowded around his easel. He distributed paper and crayons to the children, and his example was later followed by the local French administration...
...gorgeous rut." It takes Baker two weeks to complete a TIME cover. He commutes to New York every other Wednesday to deliver a portrait and pick up his next assignment. During the work on a cover, he walks a mile before breakfast and does elaborate calisthenics to combat easel fatigue. The one exercise he hates is mowing the lawn. He is seriously thinking, he says, of planting the entire area with green concrete of rough texture...
...little girl. Its lighting is reminiscent of the impressionistic paintings of Renoir et al., and its atmosphere is that of a powder puff. Aaron Siskind's closeup of peeling paint is not supposed to look like paint alone; it is a faintly sinister pattern reminiscent of easel pictures by the German surrealist Max Ernst. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky is heavily symbolic: its main feature is not Stravinsky, but a piano top photographed to resemble a looming note of music...
...bear children." She produced hundreds of children, but they were all on canvas. The daughter of a rich Philadelphia banker, Mary Cassatt embarked for Paris in 1868, when she was only 23. She spent the rest of her long life abroad, in obdurate and unremitting labor at the easel, and made herself the best female painter America has produced. She stayed a spinster all her life, but her favorite theme was that of mother and child. Without sentimentalizing the mother-child relationship, she pictured it clear, and each time new, in its innumerable facets...
When the Nazis occupied Rome in 1943, an elderly man slipped quietly into the city's artists' quarter and took over an empty studio. He wore the artist's standard beret and velvet jacket, filled his room with paints, brushes, canvas and easel. But the man was no artist. He was Guglielmo Emanuel, Rome correspondent of Milan's Corriere della Sera, and one of Italy's most renowned anti-fascist journalists. For years he had been in trouble with Mussolini's police; now with the Germans in power, they were looking for him again...