Word: hackwork
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...rich and the powerful (bankers, royalty, a newspaper owner, beautiful femmes du monde) that seems to define the high society of its day as fully as Felix Nadar's photographs recorded the artistic elites of the 1850s and '60s. Ingres loved doing portraits--and hated it. It was both hackwork and the vehicle of some of his highest instincts as an artist. It drove him crazy: "I don't know how to draw anymore," this greatest of 19th century draftsmen moaned to a friend. "I don't know anything anymore. A portrait of a woman! Nothing in the world...
Where does all this leave Mrs. Clinton? Her performance on last week's Today show was an interesting fusion of political hackwork and personal calm, though one would assume that she is going through hell again. Yet in marriages, both successful and serviceable, a weakness in one partner is often compensated for by a strength in the other. No one knows better than Mrs. Clinton that her husband will not find true love with another person, since he can't find what he doesn't truly trust. He needs her for that understanding, but she may need him as well...
...sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done for Pozzo, who had a thing about elephants). And one painting from San Francisco's De Young Museum, The Adoration of the Golden Calf, does not survive comparison; it is clearly not by Poussin at all, though it shows how fanatically others imitated...
...double acts the Met does so well, in cahoots with the Musee du Louvre in Paris, we have a show of 71 paintings organized by Jeannine Baticle of the Louvre. From this panoramic exposure a new Zurbaran emerges -- both stronger and weaker, more intense and yet more prone to hackwork, than one had imagined...
...backbone of this album--whether he's bashing out thickly fuzzed Heavy Metal riffs or breaking through the rhythm section with wildly distorted psychedelia. Meanwhile, drummer Grant Hart--who wrote many of the songs on the album--keeps things going, especially when Mould's guitar work ossifies into hackwork...