Word: silverpoint
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...former nightclub performer, Thea Ekström is also well known as an artist in her native Sweden, and her works are in the collections of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Painter Jean Dubuffet. This is New York's first chance to inspect her unusual talent. In silverpoint on oil-and-canvas, she draws tiny signs and symbols around the edges of lonely landscapes that are guarded by a pale sun and filled with little animals, intertwining snakes, and under the earth's surface, a strange, subterranean life...
...DINE-Janis, 15 East 57th. Dine calls his painting-collage-drawing-sculpture combinations Self Portraits, uses real axes, knives and cutters to establish macabre themes. One moody job is a silverpoint of a bathrobe; where the head should go, there are a lead plumb line and a pocketknife impaled in a wood block. Through...
ARTHUR JOSEPHSON-Seiferheld, 158 East 64th. Fifty drawings in silverpoint, ink, tempera and wax encaustic by a facile, delicate draftsman. Included are some out-of-this-world portraits of Moondog, the blind musician clad in army blankets, who haunts Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas. Also 16th to 19th century old master drawings. Through...
...Winslow Ames. 141 pages. Shorewood. $4.95. Drawing, it has been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies, from figure studies...
...studies, ranging from the swift Oriental lines that concisely catch the profile of his friend, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, to a marvelously strong-featured portrait of Painter Marguerite Zorach, wife of Sculptor William Zorach, to an almost misty rendition of a pensive Van Wyck Brooks. Alongside these are his pictures in silverpoint-a painstaking technique that flourished in the 15th century and is rarely seen these days. With a silverpoint pen, Biddle works on paper treated with whiting to abrade the silver. He draws tiny line upon tiny line, and as the air oxidizes the deposited silver, the forms of birds...