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...inventory of shapes that eventually find their way onto the canvas. It is a way of keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended on the fluid, spontaneous and unrepeatable movements of the hand. De Kooning-and to some extent Robert Motherwell -are the only surviving abstract expressionist painters in whose work the preliminary study does play...
...that I share those views is to read an element into the article that is simply not there. In fact my personal opinions on these subjects are largely the same as the authors of these letters. Nonetheless, it was my intent to write an objective and even sympathetic character sketch of Vrba. This did not represent an endorsement of his position...
...Marceau must have surpassed all his childhood ambitions. His show is a pure delight, so beautiful it hurts, hypnotizing entire audiences sketch after sketch, show after show. Mobilizing every muscle in that gracefully compact body--down to the muscle that bends a thumb backwards at the joint to form a right angle of it--he becomes a vital embodiment of emotions that possess an intensity and beauty one rarely recognizes in the human form, no matter how present. In his famous pantomime, The Creation of the World, expressing the inexpressible for a fleeting moment he relates visually the most ineffable...
...basically simple," says Reiche, who was trained in mathematics at Hamburg University. First, she explains, the artists apparently worked out their designs in advance on small 6-ft. by 6-ft. plots still visible near many of the larger figures. On these dirt sketch pads, she says, they could break down each drawing into its component parts. Straight lines could be drawn by stretching a rope between two stakes. Curves represented more of a challenge. The ancient draftsmen apparently dealt with it by breaking each curve into smaller, linked arcs. Recognizing that the arcs represented sections of the circumferences...
...biographical sketch on the book's jacket which said, "Mr. Horovitz studied at Harvard College..." led me to check that fact and find unexpectedly that Horovitz had never studied at the University. Inquiries at CCNY showed, nevertheless, that their records credited Horovitz with a Harvard A.B. supposedly given in 1961. Two days of inter-office telephoning at CCNY disclosed, as Horovitz himself said, "I'm not listed at Harvard because I didn't go there." And so began the final act of an "unprecedented" case of academic misrepresentation, according to Edward Quinn, chairman of the CCNY English Department...