Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan's lolas Gallery was showing one of the nation's most successful young still-life artists: Richard de Menocal. Small watercolors, mainly of food and flowers, the pictures were both exact and relaxed. Menocal had arranged his objects casually against solid black or bright backgrounds and made them glow by means of many superimposed glazes. His art celebrates small but enduring things: the coolness of sliced cucumber, the blue dusk shade of cornflowers, the pungency of spilled paprika, the gleam of a lily or a linen handkerchief. On opening day more than half the pictures...
During nine sittings, ranging from two minutes to an exact hour each, Sutherland made scores of sketches-with and without the cigar, separate eye details, hand studies, expressions and color notes ("eyelids appear almost corn color; cheekbones, pink"). Churchill had a few ideas of his own about the portrait, strongly hinted that he should be painted as a Knight of the Garter. Sutherland sketched him in Garter robes, but quietly set the sketches aside in favor of black coat and striped trousers-more fitting, he believed, for a parliamentary gift...
...exact nature of his visit here is undisclosed...
...Everything has been worked out exactly. There are several important German political events, including ratification of the Paris Pact, coming up-That's why we are a little unsure about exact dates yet," he stated...
...there the significant stepping stones that will load across the difficulties to new understanding. The one who places the last stone and stops across to the terra firma of accomplished discovery gets all the credit. Only the initiated know and honor those whose patient integrity and devotion to exact observations have made the last stop possible...