Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many painters," the biographer Giorgio Vasari noted in 1550, "achieve in the first sketch of their work, as though guided by a sort of fire of inspiration, a certain measure of boldness: but afterwards, in finishing it, the boldness vanishes." The first sketch of which Vasari spoke was usually an oil sketch on relatively fragile paper or unprimed canvas. On it, the artist of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design...
When a colleague in 1960 pointed out that the dots, like those of the op painters, induced afterimages, Poons labored for 18 months to eliminate the effect. In his newest paintings, he has thrown away the sketch pad and the crisp little musical notations altogether...
Bond sat calmly, with an air of detachment as a nervous student gave a brief biographical sketch of Julian Bond: "Charter member of SNCC...major tactician for the civil rights movement in the early sixties...hero of the new left...rebel in the bastion of southern politics...member of the Georgia legislature...controversal figure in the Democratic Convention...
...Bennett and Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at the Fogg. The exhibit has already made a circuit of three midwestern cities, and Cambridge is its final stop. The catalogue is very complete, including a full page photograph of every work in the exhibit and a provenance and bibliographical sketch on most items...
...styles, periods, and uses of the media to come together as a whole. One gets accustomed to the romantic, flourishing stroke of the Italian Renaissance only to be led on to the fleshy, finished modeling of a Prud'hon study for an oil, then to a gnarled rapid Daumier sketch, and from there to the modern works...