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Word: sketched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Titian," says he, "is that he was Titian." In his drawings, Lebrun aims first for speed, in order to get his whole vision down before it shreds apart in his mind. He starts with black, white and grey, which he regards as the colors of memory. When the first sketch is finished, it can be reworked indefinitely. Gradually the work takes on depth, as if it had been built up layer upon layer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death & Transfiguration | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...moods are as unpredictable as his talent is unlimited. He can whisk off a sketch on something that seems little bigger than a postage stamp, and it will turn out to be almost exactly in scale. He has few close friends, and though he says he enjoys having people around to talk to, it is always a rather unilateral affair "Talking stimulates," he once explained. "You develop ideas when you have an audience. And anyway, you don't have to listen to what the others say." As for money -here the master is even more impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbu | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...flooded with rumors about an imminent attempt at space flight. Before the Vostok flight, the Moscow correspondent for the London Daily Worker cabled his paper that the cosmonaut son of a famous Soviet airplane designer had orbited the earth three times and landed with serious injuries. The London Daily Sketch identified him as Gennady Mikhailov. Soviet authorities promptly denied both reports. But the rumors continued, and the papers stuck to their stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cruise of the Vostok | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...information." The show went on, and the British press, aware of Murrow's gag attempt, delightedly gave his role as narrator full billing. "Murrow's documentary," said the London Daily Herald, "blazed fiercely with his incomparable and indispensable indignation." Wrote Neville Randall in the London Daily Sketch: "I can only say that if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore it to pieces last night, the propaganda war is as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Harvester | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterful Drawings | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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