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...always thought that Hurd's technique of egg tempera [Jan. 29] was on the scrambled side, strictly for soft-boiled quacks. But your article and accompanying full-color reproductions have made me an egg-tempera enthusiast forever-sunny side...
...breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor, is an exhibition of 98 paintings that documents nearly 35 years of the artist's minute observations...
...stroke stopped Sheeler's production in 1959. Some of his last works, now on view in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, show that his precise touch never faltered. The 14 paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...
...MAGIC OF REALISM-Banfer, 23 East 67th. In egg tempera and acrylic polymer, in still lifes of snails and cockscombs and sultry human dramas, 18 slightly surreal realists change perspective and weave soells always uneasy, often unearthly. Through...
Manufacturers make synthetics in various thicknesses equivalent to those of watercolors, gouache and oils. Matte and gloss media are available to impart every kind of surface finish, from chalky pastels and flat tempera to buttery oil glazes. Plastics can be thickened to print graphics or molded into free-standing sculpture. Moreover, under laboratory tests equivalent to 45 years of direct sunlight, the new paints have proved virtually fadeproof. Indeed, like every other technical innovation in the history of painting, the synthetics may well lead artists to explore, experiment and discover new forms and techniques as enduring as the paints themselves...