Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer remembers the model search posters well. There was a "tall, slim, decidedly caucasian-looking female," which she believed typified "western standards of beauty." The logo was a simple sketch of a generic women in a dress. She didn't even have distinct facial features, which just goes to show what you see when you are so obviously looking for something more...
...most interested in the farmers. What was it like to raise wheat in the Midwest, alone in the field, with four years at a private university back East buried deep in the past? We aren't sure, because there is only one line in the sketch of Charles Beardsley, a farmer from Clarks, Nebraska...
Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
Just when one has absorbed his wonderful ability to create a live image with "Notebook 2, Drawing 25," one encounters another sketch of his which contradicts everything that he accomplished in the prior sketch. His forms are angular and two-dimensional in "Notebook 3, Drawing 10." Moore's versatility is evident, and thus, rather than define his style, it is more sensible to simply acknowledge his multiple artistic skills...
...what's the value in a stretched sketch about two heavy-metal heads -- Wayne (Mike Myers) and his sidekick, Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) -- who do a cheap cable-TV show from Wayne's basement? Well, it's sorta funny, and most genial: for all their ranking on parents and drooling over hot babes, Wayne and Garth are innocent kids wasting time creatively. "It's about two friends who have nothing but can make things fun," says the film's director, Penelope Spheeris. "Kids see this and say, 'O.K., I don't have much, but I can still have a good...