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...walk with a painter and you shall see for the first time groups, colors, clouds and keepings. -Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Americans get the opportunity to have their eyes opened by such a hike. The painter's vision can nonetheless be shared, reasons a New York artist named Alan Gussow. Backed by a leading environmental group, Friends of the Earth, he has just produced a handsome coffee-table book entitled A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Saturday Review Press; $27.50). It juxtaposes 67 American landscapes, painted from the 16th century to the present, with a description of what moved each artist to select the scene. The result is astonishingly successful; no careful reader should...
...believe that his life is more satisfying than mine. His days are long and arduous, stressful, hectic, immensely tiring and relatively confined to one track. By contrast, I have been free to pursue my college career to graduation, become a published writer, a portrait photographer, a reasonably accomplished painter, and even a mediocre tennis player. No one in our house has ever been a slave, least...
...being careful not to scratch the paint-35 coats of the richest, most luminous black paint that the world's most industrialized nation can provide. Each coat has been applied personally and diligently over a three-month period by the area's master car painter, Junior himself, of Junior's House of Paints in Lynwood. "This has gotta be the sharpest '58 Speedster you've ever seen," Wayne whispers reverently. "Look inside, those are Bigelow carpets on the floor . . . Ron had the whole interior ripped out and redone. He paid twenty-eight hundred...
...duke's taste, though unerring, was also eclectic. At the same time he commissioned the painting of Christ enthroned, around 1415, he also commissioned an Apocalypse from a painter whose style was the very reverse of decoration-plain, and freely, almost aggressively, brushed in. One page shows the woman with a seven-headed dragon from the Book of Revelations, "clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The design, compressed into a few square inches, has a marvelous sweep-the rockfolds echoing the curve of the dragon...