Word: easels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goes the Easel...
...Academy, Colombia-born Botero uses a Renaissance palette of seven oil colors over verdaccio, the greenish base that guarantees lifelike hues. He prefers ocher to the chemical yellows that the impressionists first popularized. Yet his art is as thoroughly contemporary as a giant vinyl hamburger, except that he practices easel painting where others mold plastics. In its carnival colorism it is also as Latin American as bananas and coffee beans (see color...
Scene: a junk-filled empty lot near London's seedy Portobello Road. Rain clouds. Children swinging from a rope tied to a tree. A crowd of corduroy jackets and miniskirts respectfully watches a German painter named Wer ner Schreib tack a huge picture of Ludwig Erhard to an easel, then set it afire...
...some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars believe that the figure at the easel in Allegory of Painting very likely represents the Delft master himself...
...eight years, WPA alone produced 18,800 sculptures, 108,000 easel paintings, 11,300 original prints, and 2,500 murals for public buildings. At its peak, it employed some 5,000 artists. As a current exhibition of 83 works at the University of Maryland's art gallery shows, the U.S. got quite a bit for its money...