Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actor Jack Nicholson put in a successful bid of $7,728 for a Tiepolo chalk sketch. French Idol Alain Delon also bid on old master drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...
...museum," he declared. "Besides, any recognition I got was attributable to my troops, who did a magnificent job." And Lady Bird Johnson did not want to talk about her por trait at all. She graciously steered conversations to the exhibit as a whole: "It's a glittering thumbnail sketch of the last 25 years...
...biggest impression was made by an autobiographical sketch of Gorky's. It "was an excellent metaphor for how I felt. One must consider the idea of the artist as orphan, an orphaned prodigy, whose parents find him some where?the bulrushes, perhaps. To pretend to be an orphan, alone, is a form of narcissism. I suppose all children have this disgusting form of self-pity; but more so the artist, who is Robinson Crusoe. He must invent his stories, his pleasures; he succeeds in reconstructing a parody of civilization from scratch. He makes himself by education, by survival, by constantly...
...intimates. The public Travolta, personable and shy, canny and eager, is like a picture in a child's coloring book, where only the bold, broad outlines of a figure are provided. The drawing will take any colors you want. Only the original artist holds the full, definitive master sketch, which he shares sparingly...
...with Chicanos, Eskimos and Indians, volume four ultimately fails. The book has already received less attention than Privileged Ones, not because the former's subject matter is not necessarily less interesting, but because Coles does not have a strong handle on the way these children perceive their world. One sketch reads like another, until finally, all the narratives melt into one. In my impressions of these children, I am left thinking that the children who do not live in or near big cities, who have less opportunities than privileged ones, are generally less narcissistic and more individualistic. They...