Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questionnaire showed that the athletic participant herself tall, overweight, and uncoordinated, while the non-participants were more self-assured, assessing themselves as of medium height and weight, and graceful bearing. Mrs. Pillinger noted that not one 'Cliffie checked the box titled "underweight...
...large couch. The gallery, named the ARxerie, is dedicated to the uncontestable principle that every American home ought to have a real painting in that empty-looking place over the stereo set. Those who drive in are assured of finding art in every style, subject, size, color and medium, mostly bought up by the batch in Europe. Works are priced from $4 to $2,000-including frame...
...technique as well as ideas Aronson turns to the past. "In a sense, I'd have been at home if I'd lived 600 years ago," he says. He is the U.S.'s foremost master of the ancient and dangerous medium of encaustic, a blend of wax, resin, varnish and oil fused together by heat. His paintings always burst into flame. Says he: "It's like working on a hot griddle, scrambling eggs." The result is a warm, waxy panel more durable and more translucent than oils...
...group of portraits best demonstrates the artist's control of his medium. In the "Lovers," for example, the muted shades and rough, dull textures of the tiles contrast sharply with the brighter mood of the couple. Playing up the two-dimensional limitations of mosaics, Holleman has created a St. Francis who is startling in his simplicity. His square, soulful face contrasts sharply with the curved body of a bird. In all of Holleman's portraits, the most striking feature of his characters is their eyes. Carefully planned angles, precisely placed bits of tiles convey mood and emotion...
Ogilvy is still dread Scot enough to voice some stubborn convictions about the wrongs of his craft. He believes that billboard advertising should be abolished. And on the question of commercial television, Ogilvy is candid: "As a practitioner I know that television is the most potent advertising medium ever devised, and I make most of my living from it. But as a private person I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching it without commercial interruptions...