Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Grease pencil and watercolor by Edward Sorel. Caricaturist Sorel's first cover for TIME on the leading candidate for mayor of New York City gives him one more opportunity to indulge a favorite pastime: "Making faces at some sacred cows." Earlier targets of his pointed pen have included Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Nixon and Frank Sinatra. Sorel's depiction of New York mayors past, present and possibly future is derived from Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Leading the People. On the left, gazing up at Procaccino, is Mayor John...
...FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations...
...Cover: Pen and ink with watercolor by Ronald Searle...
...full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux. "It's just watercolor," cried Pinoncelli as the cops carted him away. "You won't even have to send your coat to the cleaner-just wash...
...repose a dozen constructions made of impure but somehow weirdly poetic materials: rope, rocks, logs, old felt and even a few potatoes. They are put together with the purest of professional skill, and spoof everything from minimal art to maximum drip. On the walls hang dreamlike, deft pen-and-watercolor landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein...