Word: watercoloring
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...camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of painting watercolor portraits on small circles and squares of ivory. The genteel custom flourished in New England in the mid-18th century, died out a century later. Last week, in conjunction with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts put on view a choice selection of 210 American miniatures...
...watercolors and drawings Greenman has command of a definite style. It seemed to me however that she strives too much for a decorative effect. There is something about her crowd figures reminiscent of Reginald Marsh, without his strength or skill. Anne Lord's pen and ink drawings of horses would be better done on white paper. Though the draughtsmanship is wiry and supple. Uninteresting and imprecise line, undermines the efforts of Judy Kuznets to create an effect with watercolor wash over ink. I found her Accordion Player and Mother and Child shapeless to my imagination. The idea, however...
...helplessness to an athlete's violence. But out of the mouth of farce-like cold water from the mouth of a fountain gargoyle-flows a stream of cold wisdom. Anouilh uses the coarse, truthful exaggerations of caricature deliberately to offset the genteel evasions of life painted in watercolor. The general's foundling son may just be the latest in a long Gilbertian line; but the Jostling father, the middle-aged satyr with his subaltern dreams, who finds it harder to grow older because he has never really grown up, is part of a sharper comic vision. The figure...
...hard. He can seldom face canvas. He always hopes that his frequent trips will result in new works, but has learned, to his pain, that they need not. Once he spent a whole summer in New Mexico, roaming that most scenic of states, and found material for just one watercolor: a locomotive. He once tried to paint the fine view over Washington Square from his Manhattan studio-home. "It must have been 15 or 20 years ago," he says. "I didn't finish it. Maybe I will some...
...master draftsman. Even in the madhouse, he drew a set of circus pictures with a ringmaster's eye for a false move. His latest biographers (husband-and-wife team of Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, who have also done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name-proud sporting family...