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Written Paint. With hindsight, it is difficult to look at the broad, loosely brushed planes of primary color in Marin's watercolor of 1921, Red and Green and Blue-Autumn, without thinking of Philip Guston or Hans Hofmann; and Marin's Cape Split. Maine, with its fuzzy-edged, vibrating and organic shapes held together by tense flicks of line, equally suggests Gorky or the early De Kooning. Near the end of his life, Marin was almost literally writing the paint onto his canvases -his own title for a 1950 oil was The Written Sea-with an immediacy...
...London Bridge Is Falling Down!), he knows as much about the shops and ships, the rigs and ragamuffins as a sharp eye and a keen mind can acquire. The result encourages young (and old) to brood upon details and be delighted by the beauty of black ink and watercolor washes that blend a Delacroix-like delicacy with the liveliness of Thomas Rowlandson. Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard...
...first I just drew them as a kind of doodle, and then I got interested in them as a form of art, particularly in the use of color," Menzel said yesterday. He draws the outlines of the creatures in India ink, then fills in the bright colors in watercolor...
...introduction to her newest collection of watercolor drawings, The Beard and the Braid, Barbara Westman promises to show us "pictures of different worlds called Cambridge." And since the book's jacket further explains that Miss Westman is herself a current resident of this city, one looks for a sympathetic treatment of the often antithetical communities that provide Cambridge with its constant tension and occasional vitality. But what do we get? Dunster House, quite early on a spring morning. The corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. The Lampoon. The Episcopal Theological School and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, inside...
...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...