Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel like the Laughing Cavalier," Margot said, and, Frans Hals notwithstanding, she looked something like him, too, as she happily showed off her Yves St. Laurent jet-black velvet pants suit to a gaggle of photographers and admirers at the opening of Artist Keith Lancey's watercolor exhibit at London's Mayfair Hotel. Her outfit all but stole the show from the paintings, which was O.K. with the artist because she'll wear those same duds again for her new film, Dame Margot the Dancer, produced by, of all people, Keith Lancey...
...leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years. And Picasso himself was so touched that he announced "a little sur prise" gift from his private collection: a Rose Period oil called La Famille, two big, brand-new Picassos done in his contemporary style, and a watercolor study for his first cubist work, Les Demoiselles a"Avignon, a painting which shocked some of his fellow artists but which changed the course of art history when he painted...
...Rauschenberg was observing footage from 35-mm. reels of the movie as it was cranked through a moviola machine. Single frames were chosen, blown up into black-and-white prints, and then transferred to silkscreens; he treated the final image with colored inks and paints, including splotches of bloodlike watercolor. Altogether, he made nine montages before the editors made their final choice. Though such characters as Bonnie and Clyde are not familiar images in Rauschenberg's art, his technique on TIME'S cover is. It will be immediately identified as a "Rauschenberg" by those who know his work...
Nonetheless, many of the minor works are high-voltage pictures in themselves. A savage chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...
...paste. He followed the same process for all four. The figures are life-sized head-and-torso, with paper-and-glue eyeballs inserted from the rear of the framework, hair made of scissor-fringed strips of the London Daily Mail, and a final facial of thin paste and watercolor. Each unclad figure took two days to build...