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Victor Hugo's pen was never still, and not necessarily because he was writing a novel or a poem. He could be holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
...neglect as an artist. Being at the top of French letters, he could not bear to be of lesser rank in any other field, and so he gave the impression that his art was a mere bagatelle to occupy his spare time. The drawings, he said, were "pen scratchings" that he turned out "between verses, during moments of reverie, and almost unconsciously with what ink remained in my pen...
Coffee to Brew a Storm. It is probably only legend that he used chocolate, milk, and soot in his work; but he did use coffee to portray a brewing storm, deliberately broke pen points to achieve a wider line, pecked his paintings with a knife or dirtied them with fingers to give the impression of mist. He could paint or draw a female nude with bold and simple strokes; he could also produce magnificent colored swirls or fascinating gloops that would seem at home in many modern galleries. In his drawing of a hanged man, inspired partly by the execution...
...first the incident gave the appearance of a violation of academic freedom to some people. For the artist's brush would be synonomous with the reporter's pen or typewriter; therefore the censorship seemed unjust--so unjust that several art students protested with signs saying: "Unfair; Ours is a visual language; We protest censorship; Freedom of expression; and Freedom?" As one onlooker remarked, "This proves that Ole Miss can have demonstrations without rioting...
...fast-selling Thermo-Fax, a dry method that uses heat from an infra-red lamp to form an image on specially coated papers. But the Xerox machine had a special appeal. It is a dry method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more successful in copying type than photographs. The 914 makes copies by projecting the image of the original document or object onto an electrostatically charged drum coated with a sensitive element called metallic selenium. The machine automatically sprinkles the drum with a black powder that adheres...