Word: nibs
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...Dinky car, a moth, a scrap of tapestry, a bow tie, some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears...
...even a small show like this demonstrates that Kubin was much more: he was one of the masters of fantasy, a Callot with a richer and, so to speak, post-Freudian imagination. The images he conjured with the insect-like scratchings of his inked nib possessed him as dybbuks their host...
...Painting is my language," says Baruchello, son of an Italian lawyer. Neither pop nor op, his vocabulary is intellectual, full of hints-a Proustian complex of personal remembrance. And he inscribes his nib's nuances as if they were the scientific jiggling track of his own electroencephalograph. "To throw a pot of paint at a canvas is not my language," he says. "Images are like sounds-complicated. We communicate in complicated sounds. I communicate in com plicated images...
...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
What texts! Thompson chooses his texts with the care of a sculptor choosing his stone, a calligrapher his nib. His settings of three Horatian odes sound fresh after 41 years: one wonders how those dissonances and lush chromaticisms (which have since become less frequent in Thompson's music) struck listeners in the twenties...