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...Britain's then booming satire business. They decided to start their own program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn't that at all." Constantly testing sketches on one another, the Pythons were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They soon enlisted a new recruit, Minnesota-born Terry Gilliam, whose animated graphics are a favorite device for closing a sketch. "We worked intuitively," explains Cleese of those early days...
...medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern Europe. Among the drawings- which, at the time of Lehman's death, was one of the greatest collections in private hands in the world - are such rarities as two highly finished studies by Rogier van der Weyden, a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer's famous self-portrait...
There is nothing undisclosed in Riley's paintings. All their components are there, and visible, down to the last small bend of a stripe. There are no accidental effects. Like Vasarely, Riley prefers to have her work done by assistants from a preplanned sketch, with every color shift worked out in advance. Yet the way the paintings work on the eye is unpredictable, and almost baffles analysis. As Art Critic Bryan Robertson put it, "We are creatures of habit and rarely fully stretched. Riley's paintings are alive with potentiality; they disrupt visual complacency and do not provide...
...shows depicting famous men have become something of a vogue in recent years. James Whitmore is an accomplished hand on this circuit. For several years he toured in Will Rogers, U.S.A. and delightfully evoked that pithy homespun humorist. But Rogers might almost be called a watercolor sketch compared with his Give 'Em Hell Harry!, which is as masterly as a fine portrait in oils...
Everyone knows that Leonardo da Vinci invented the armored car and the alarm clock. Now historians have unearthed his most remarkable achievement. There in the musty libraries of Madrid lay the neglected sketch of a bicycle. How logical that the Renaissance man should have invented the Renaissance machine...