Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls hang graceful, abstract designs that look like snail shells, plus computer variations on op designs by Jeffrey Steele and Bridget Riley. Ohio State University's Charles Csuri, a painter turned programmer, employs EDP (Electronic Data Processing) to sketch funhouse-mirror distortions of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a man in Vitruvian proportions. Japanese Engineer Fujio Niwa has produced a computer portrait of John F. Kennedy that converts a photograph into a series of dashes, all of which converge with sinister impact on the left...
...curiously touching in describing the son of the slums who "dreams the dreams of a child. And yet when he awakens, he awakens to a living nightmare." He was rather embarrassing in the sketch of another child, himself, who hears a train go by and dreams of faraway places. "It seems like an impossible dream." But a self-sacrificing father, a "gentle Quaker mother," a dedicated teacher, a minister, a courageous wife, loyal offspring, devoted followers?plus a cast of millions of voters?combine to put that boy on the train that stopped last week in Miami Beach, possibly...
...year's major departures was the sideshow. CBS hired Columnist Art Buchwald in hopes of bringing humor to the proceedings, but during most of his appearances he seemed much less effective than in print. In one sketch, though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge...
...mind's eye," replied the prince, with what must have been a sly smile. Today, more and more artists are devoting themselves to art that exists primarily in the mind's eye. Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept so complex, so subtle, so abstract or simply so large that it cannot be reduced...
...Oakland, Calif., at a meeting of the Sexual Freedom League, Wakefield learns from a middle-aged lady that single men are not allowed in the sketching class, because some of them showed up and "didn't really sketch at all, but just looked at the model in a-well, in a disturbing way." In Grand Rapids, he reads a letter sent by a G.I. who died in Viet Nam: "Don't worry about me, Momma, all the Viet Congs in the world couldn't keep me from coming home...