Word: etch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carre's ability to etch characters and his fine hand with dialogue are characteristics of a good novelist, not merely of a writer of good spy stories. It would be a pity if he settled down to become a hack adventure writer after his success with this book
...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...
...meditative man of ideas who looks younger than his 42 years and feels that one of his faults as a reviewer is that "I try to find meaning behind appearance, which means that I sometimes do an injustice to a film." While he may at times seem to etch his phrases in acid, he says that "I only make word plays when I'm reviewing a film so dull that there is nothing worth saying about it except in the form of word plays...
...Shong's work is more developed. It is intricate and colorful, fanciful, decorative and fairly experimental. He frequently interweaves subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...
Even in his lifetime (1720-78), Piranesi printed his copper engravings so frequently that he often had to re-etch them to restore clarity. Now many of the plates-durably steel-coated at a heavy cost in faithfulness-belong to the Italian government, which occasionally runs off a new edition to the profit of the treasury. The prints produced in this "Piranesi industry" sell for around $15 each, but "the result is about as true to the original as a picture postcard would be," says Salamon. The merit of the Turin exhibit is to let viewers see prints from Piranesi...