Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time is not far distant when the subject and the canvas will pass on a moving model before a line of artists, each a specialist in his own line. One to paint the nose and the next the mouth...
...than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart." The speaker was Thomas Casilear Cole, who had 35 paintings on exhibition at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model-Melville E. Stone III, 22, grandson of the onetime general manager of the Associated Press, son of the late Herbert S. Stone, who was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. The portrait was made two years ago when young Mr. Stone left Yale and commenced to sell bonds...
Bill Lutz has a master's affection for the shells which he makes in the workshop in the Weld Boathouse across the river. "I'm turning out three craft this year," he said. "Two new 'lights' took to the water this fall, and the Number 15 model will be ready in the spring. I usually only make two shells a year. A good boat will last about 16 years. Then sometimes we give them to Prep schools before they are that...
...bathtub, but they were bigger. They stood on varnished or gilded cradles in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan-exhibits of the annual motor boat show. Salesmen at every booth gave away folders in blue and gold, in sea-green and orange, describing in fascinating language the advantages of their model's. Well-dressed people read the literature, studied the bright little boats...
...Giles, who teaches art at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, is primarily interested in the geometric symmetry of his model or subject. He established a central vertical and the subject is then drawn between balancing diagonals and their reciprocals. In the process of the drawing, the lines of the representation take the place of the lines of construction, which in the end disappear...