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Persian miniaturists who illustrated such tales hundreds of times, practiced their art to such perfection that even today scholars cannot determine whether they used brush or pen. Jewel-like colors were heightened to captivate a patron sultan who had genuine gems. Subject matter was aimed to keep him entertained. To do so, artists indulged exuberant imaginations. The stars shone by day, and daylight prevailed at night. Three men constituted an army, two humps made a range of hills...
Adams, as a founder of "Group f/64" with Edward Weston, became an advocate and practitioner of "straight" photography. Nevertheless, his pictures at times achieve the character of abstract paintings. The enlarged wood-grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...
Tongue Clicks. Gradually, Itō says, he began to acquire the instincts of an animal. The slightest change in the jungle's normal sounds would send him scurrying from his shelter into the brush, and he and his companions worked out a code of tongue clicks to warn each other of approaching danger. As Itō soon found, no place was really safe. The Chamorros, always armed and forever prowling through the jungles in search of stragglers, discovered his hiding place three times. They killed one of his mates in 1948 and nicked Itō himself with a bullet...
...electronic age is not a votary of the arts--he has more serious business. He sees himself, whatever his economic system, as a social and scientific animal, the great unraveler of the universe, its potential master, and his tool is not the sculptor's chisel any longer or the brush that paints an image of himself--his tool is technological information.... Man cannot exist as man without an image of himself to question all he knows...
Baked Images. Little Big Painting is a gibe at the high seriousness that surrounded the cult of the brush stroke by the abstract expressionists. "The original brush stroke was a romantic outpouring," explains Lichtenstein. "Here I'm making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...