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...very breath. It is said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself violently to the task, the criterion of art is met only when the artist has "captured the beast"--the essential vitality...
...remaining principles of Hsieh Ho include proper usage of the brush, careful depiction of forms, "pleasing" application of color, and transmission and perpetuation of the masters. This sixth principle deeply influenced Chinese painting. Imitation of the great masters tends to become unimaginative repetition. There is no taboo on plagiarism in the East as in the West. The imitator was apt to become less forceful, further from the essential nature of the subject, as a result of his study of the masters. Continuities of style certainly mark Western art, too, but the variations have been more extreme and are not bound...
...often did sketches before starting a large work, some being orchestrations of color without the trace of an image. These are Moreau's "abstractions," and much is made of the fact that he squeezed paint on canvas directly from the tube, used his palette knife instead of a brush, and left his fingerprints still visible. Was he the great "precursor" of 20th century abstraction? "There is no answer," says Dore Ashton, and a viewer may be tempted to wonder whether it really matters...
There are also instructions on how to make a Voodoo Dolly Pincushion and what to do with I-is-for-Ink: "Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? D R -." There is a friendly hint about brushing the teeth: "If you do not brush your teeth, they will get dull and yellow. If you brush them, they will be nice and white and bright. Maybe a wild black panther will crawl in your window some dark night and look around for someone...
...forceful-and liberal-brush of the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block is ever at the ready to assault Herblock's favorite target: the conservative. Artistic discipline generally keeps his passionate partiality within decent bounds (although he once showed former Vice President Richard M. Nixon crawling out of a sewer). But last week, as he sighted in on conservative U.S. Senator (and heir to Phoenix's Goldwaters department store) Barry M. Goldwater, nothing held Herblock back. He got off one of the lowest blows in his editorial-cartooning career...