Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good hack working an old saw. The wood may be warped and a little green, but he is not going very deeply against the grain. Whether he might rank among the architects of the traditions he so admires is an open question. Whether he can resist the beveling and varnish a big budget often imposes remains to be seen...
...Evian" was painted in 1900, and its view of the waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored...
...stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon use the camera in connection with an exhibit of its world-famous collection of Monets. The full-sized photographs will show several of the impressionist paintings before and after they were cleaned of color-obscuring varnish...
...these two categories of conservation are never far removed from one another. Beale explained that even though a painting may sometimes look bad but remain structurally sound, varnish eventually cracks paint and causes structural damage, in addition to offending the aesthete...
...preparation for this summer's Masterpiece Exhibition, he Painting Lab is cleaning a Courbet on loan. "By removing old, yellowed varnish," Beale said, the painting "not only looks fresher but the perspective actually changes a little." But the painting will also need structural repairs. For example, the work suffers from what Beale, in all seriousness, called "a cleavage here in the middle" where the paint is cracking and in danger of flaking off. A few tiny white flecks illustrate where this process has already occurred...