Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contradiction in terms: intimate baroque painting. Virtually every sketch in the show depicts Biblical or mythological figures arranged in elaborate compositions, dramatized with sometimes exaggerated chiaroscuro and overwrought perspective. Yet if the viewer can accommodate himself to the baroque's love of allegory, he will find the oil sketches a delight...
...Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Common to both these oil sketches is a genuineness of inspiration that has nothing to do with techniques. As Wittkower observes, the finished fresco had to be made solid and impressive with all its forms and symbols differentiated and understandable. Patrons expected such qualities. But in the preliminary sketch, the artist was working for the moment-and thus shares with the viewer the freshness and spontaneity of his initial vision...
...agreed last month to sell its 33% interest in Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., which had resisted the very idea of a merger. That done, Gulf & Western promptly showed that its policy can change along with the prize. Last week the company was involved in a struggle to acquire Sinclair Oil, which vowed to "vigorously oppose" the move and made its point even clearer by agreeing to merge instead with one of its competitors, Atlantic Richfield...
...firm together a decade ago and who remains very much the man in charge, Gulf & Western has become a $1.3 billion-a-year conglomerate by buying up some 70 companies in fields as diverse as metals (New Jersey Zinc) and movies (Paramount). But it has never been in the oil business. For its part, Sinclair is the nation's tenth biggest oil company; its 1967 sales were $1.5 billion and its profits $95.4 million. Because it has a relatively small amount of common stock outstanding (12,500,000 shares) for a company its size, Sinclair is particularly vulnerable...