Word: inking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Square's double bill will probably be the mediocre Paper Chase, but it probably should be The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges, a movie which was originally released for drive-ins, was highly praised by a number of critics, and has finally shown up in Cambridge. An ink blot in my mind has temporarily covered over my knowledge of other details of this film--which I never went out to the suburbs to see--and when I called Harvard Square, the theater staff pleaded similar amnesia...
...awarded a Pulitzer Prize; the winning cartoon showed two survivors of a nuclear holocaust in a bomb-pocked landscape and was captioned: "You mean you were blurring?" Since then, Wright has abandoned the pencil-and-charcoal effects favored by Mauldin and Herblock. He has developed his own pen-and-ink style, in which faces and forms are distorted past realistic limits. His decisive lines and elongated figures are reminiscent of the technique of British Caricaturist Ronald Searle. Wright's characters, with their ballooning eyeballs, pinprick pupils and ramshackle poses, seem to have stepped out of a Road Runner animated...
Last week Yale announced that the map may be the work of a skilled 20th century forger. Using an intricate form of small-particle analysis that employs techniques developed since 1957, a Chicago firm found that the map's ink contained traces of anatase, a form of titanium dioxide whose properties were not known before the 1920s. Said Witten: "I have always said the Vinland map was controversial and that arguments about it were likely to continue for generations. I could not feel any other way than sad." About the way that 10,000 others-who paid $15 each...
...there is any common factor that unites the diverse styles and schools in this exhibition-the misty gray impalpability of Ma Lin in the 13th century with the dark stormy flood of ink from which Mu Ch'i's tiger rises, or the epigrammatic beauty of the late 15th century P'eng Hsü's plum branch-it is the pursuit of what Taoist scholars called...
...Rhythmic vitality" comes close to its sense, for the Chinese considered a painting to manifest ch'i if the "spirit" of its subject was translated into the movements of the artist's hand and then to the ink marks. The idea is that of Confucius: "Only the truly intelligent understand the principle of identity. They do not view things as apprehended by themselves subjectively, but transfer themselves into the position of the things viewed...