Word: sketches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shahn actually did the sketch some time ago, in the spring of 1960, to accompany an article written by Stevenson for a new magazine. But the magazine never got off the ground, the article never appeared, and Shahn's sketch now reaches print for the first time...
...Herbert, is an event in itself, the first serious study written about the school since 1925. It positions the painters, most of whom had their studios in the village of Barbizon near Paris, as genuine revolutionaries. For generations, French landscapists had not painted direct from nature except to make sketches. Their finished pictures were done in the studio-usually hoked-up historical scenes or "noble landscapes" that over the years had become more and more stagy and contrived. The elementary idea that an artist could set up his easel out of doors and produce a serious painting...
...coasts of France and Holland with brush strokes that became increasingly liquid, in keeping with his subjects. Critics accused him of hastening too much over solid detail, surrendering too much to vague "impressions." Writes Professor Herbert: "It was in this dispute, which revolved around his diminishing the difference between sketch and finished painting, that the battle for impressionism was first engaged...
...Hope Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An hour of music and patter, including a Hope-ful sketch called "Bird Brain of Alcatraz," with Guests Jack Benny, Ethel Merman and Bobby Darin...
...Shong's work is more developed. It is intricate and colorful, fanciful, decorative and fairly experimental. He frequently interweaves subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...