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...thus no single teacher would have any feedback on the performance of the one or two pupils from her class likely to be tested. This, Carnegie contends, means that no "invidious comparisons" would result, and no teacher would be under pressure to "teach for the tests." But the broad-brush group results could provide some facts which might help resolve the endless arguments on how well, or poorly, the schools are doing...
...result, much that was Elsheimer's does not carry his name. But art historians have definitely identified many of his works through his distinctive style and meticulous brush strokes. With the long-overdue showing in Frankfurt, Elsheimer should regain some of the high reputation that he held among his contemporaries...
READING Red China's proliferating posters for either news or propaganda is an art in itself. In the flourishing brush strokes of Chinese calligraphy, the tatzebao alternately denounce, cajole, exhort and praise. Last week they so covered the walls of cities, government buildings and even private huts that the citizens of Canton had to read their messages on the ground, where frustrated Red Guards laid out their latest scribblings and weighted them down with stones...
...This in itself was nothing new: Toulouse-Lautrec had endlessly sketched prostitutes, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avignon represents a famous brothel. But for Pascin, prostitutes be came both his main subject and a way of life, and in many ways he found his brush with life more important than his brush with the canvas...
Pascin perfumed his canvases with a gently colored atmosphere. Trying to strike a sort of balance between innocence and enticement, Pascin veiled his women, like Salomes six times removed, in scanty teddies that turned to smoke under his brush...