Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picasso, who declined to send anything to the show, might have conveyed more with a quiet little sketch of either the chicken or the rat. Yet Paris gallerygoers, bored stiff with disciples of past masters, were welcoming Lorjou's rebellion last week by beating a path to his big, brash canvas...
...Pablo Picasso's pen & ink Nude Woman with Raised Arms was sketched in 1909, when the artist had already proved himself a master of academic drawing, and got bored with it. African carvings gave him a new departure: they substituted corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred...
...born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable as anything, he does 40 to 50 cartoons a year for the magazine...
...best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...
...have no more color than a subtly graded grey wash and one or two small areas of blood red. His designs for the Lionel Barrymore "Macbeth" of 1921 and the John Barrymore "Hamlet" of 1920 are masterpieces of expression, and at the same time, of dramatic force. Jones' costume sketch for John Barrymore as Gloucester is a revelation of character in every line, every color and texture contrast...