Word: graphical
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...forms in TIME, the smallest are the pictorial symbols. Usually less than one inch square, these graphic illustrations appear at the beginning of two or more stories that are related thematically. The elements of last month's cover package on Madonna, for example, were linked by a symbol representing her slinky, peek-a-boo belly button. For this week's cover stories on the Administration's tax program, a hand pouring coins into Uncle Sam's hat is employed. To tie together stories on the cyclone in Bangladesh and the soccer riot in Belgium, an anguished face is used...
Nearly all these miniatures are the work of Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes, who oversees the creation of TIME's maps, charts and other graphic art. Holmes produced more than 200 illustrations in seven years for Britain's Radio Times, the journal of the BBC, before joining TIME in 1978. He has written a book on the subject, Designing Pictorial Symbols, released last week by Watson-Guptill. (A previous book by Holmes, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams, was published last year.) Holmes' new book contains extensive research into the history of graphic symbols. "It goes back to picture...
...life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding to what the pro-lifers have done," says Lauren Virshup, executive director...
...instruction in the art schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister ink--seems remote...
Among the great European collections of the traditional graphic arts, the Albertina's has always had a special place. Its holdings are vast: more than 1.5 million items, ranging from playing cards to Michelangelo drawings. Yet what counts is not their gross but, so to speak, their net: the core of old master drawings and prints assembled, over a lifetime of passionate connoisseurship, by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822). At a time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth...