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...marvelous consistency of style--the same phrases appear over and over. Things are constantly "flowering up," the "rank weeds of bureaucracy" are pruned, and the fight is constantly being waged at the "grass roots." Mr. Villard also believes in the personal touch: he includes a detailed and scathing biographical sketch of John J. Rooney, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on State Department Appropriations, who opposes the use of the "proper lubricant" in diplomatic affairs...
...someone did not paint, he could take care of that too, for Hofmann was a born teacher. His knowledge of the convulsions of 20th century art was firsthand. He had known Picasso, worked alongside Matisse in sketch classes in Paris. Synthesizing such high-key colorism with cubism, he practiced and preached an intuitive, joyous abstract expressionism. His doctrine of "push and pull," by which he tried to reintroduce the tensions once created by depth perspective into the picture plane, flattened by modern artists, became the byword of abstract expressionism, and he himself became the movement's prime mentor...
...scenes when he was commissioned to paint well known Watson an the Shark. That work was followed by the Death of the Earl of Chatham in 1779 which enjoyed great critical plaudits. By 1780 Copley was at the height of his powers, as we can see in the oil sketch Mrs. Startin (see page...
...great-grandson stumbled onto that, he spirited it off to Munich's Karl and Faber auction house to sell for pocket money. "Götterdämmerung!" the family muttered when they heard what Wummi was up to. When the auction house refused to withdraw the sketch, the Wagners bid it back from themselves for $26,200, and dolefully paid $5,700 in commissions to the auctioneers. Wummi got not a pfennig...
...studied for eight years. But Rubens added his own naturalism. In part, this comes from Rubens' good fortune in having live models close at hand to study. There were no zoos in Italy, but Antwerp, where Rubens lived, boasted one, and there he was able to sketch lions in their coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground. Amidst their curling manes and rippling bodies, Daniel is impaled by a shaft of light that slashes into...