Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNNY FRIEDLAENDER-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. In marked similarity to his etchings, 15 of which are included in this show, the watercolors of one of Europe's best-known graphic artists are exquisite linear abstractions. Friedlaender's soft-focus shadings on old parchment, brightened by occasional glimmers of red and blue, reveal a fancy and poesy akin to Klee. Through...
...recent decipherment of the Minoan Linear A script has made it possible to translate the 797-line inscription carved on a marble slab that has been in the possession of my family for almost 3000 years. The first lines read as follows...
Lebrun's figures are simple in the sense that they avoid detail and scrupulous realism, but they lack technical economy. Superfluous lines preclude maximum effects of weight and power, as well as any real linear grace. Despite the artist's great predilection and proven talent for drawing, he has conceived these figures in sculptural terms and consequently his line is most effective when he uses it to suggest volumes. When he uses line seemingly for its own sake, the results are less fortunate...
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center . . . Sc.D...
...exhibition includes 10 paintings, 12 watercolors and drawings, 55 prints, one tapestry, and a selection of books. It ranges from a 1920 still life, signed with the family name Jeanneret eight years before the architect adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier, to the 1962 tapestry and includes his linear, brilliantly colored "Taureaux" painting...