Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Publisher Rene Julliard saw the first verses in Minou's childish scrawl, he thought he had found a literary prodigy even greater than his last discovery. Teenager Franchise Sagan. whose short, sexy Bonjour Tristesse is an international bestseller. He brought Minou from Brittany, along with 49-year-old Spinster Claude Drouet. who had adopted the child at age of two. Then he brought out a slim limited edition containing ten poems and ten poesy-struck lett&rs. Sample: I picked...
Shirtless and sun-blackened, Bill Falls's body lay face upward under one wing of the crumpled Taylorcraft. Near by was a scrawl-filled notebook addressed to Charles Schrieber. Excerpts...
There is a widespread academic tendency to pass off Thomas Wolfe as an undisciplined child, as "wild little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...
Picasso one better. His aim: to arrive at the final "soulscape," the abstract essence of the sitter, by painting a series of eight portraits-one on top of the other. To the uninitiated the soulscapes may look like nothing more than shards of colored glass or a heavy calligraphic scrawl. But to Ray's followers, who include Hindu gurus, Taoist philosophers and Jung disciples, the paintings are readily identifiable as portraits of James Joyce and Ray's French gardener, Monsieur Pierre Aubert...
...series Suzuki next turned into an angry black scrawl, faded into heavy yellow and black (Soul Fading), then dramatically changed into a thick impasto of blues, orange, black, with lines scratched out by Ray's palette knife. Believing that "the artist, like physicists, must use the abstract to get to the concrete," Ray's next two portraits of Suzuki were abstractions of opposing lines. No. 7 stopped most viewers in their tracks. It was a startling blank canvas, washed in with cloudy browns. But Taoist Lecturer Dr. C. Y. Chang, on hand for the opening, recognized it immediately...