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Without a Brush. He almost never uses a brush. He dribbles paint onto a loose, unstretched canvas, swooshes it around, sometimes "kneads and hauls on the canvas as if it were sail." The triumph is that, even when dry, his canvases manage to look fluid. The colors float into view as if they had been poured like cream into iced coffee and for a moment were suspended. They merge or resist one another, but they are never smeared. To some of Jenkins' abstractionist colleagues they seem a bit too slick, but no one denies their flowing grace...
While her husband breasted the politi cal winds in Washington, Jacqueline Ken nedy, 31, deplaned hatless and coatless despite near-freezing cold at New York's La Guardia Airport, spent three gay days on the town. Usually accompanied by her sister, Princess Radziwill, wife of a Polish peer turned...
In Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (see overleaf}, the house and gate are made of wood and protrude a couple of inches from the canvas. In this particular case the idea came first; in almost all others the image, the theme, and finally the title were dictated...
She appears on canvas as quite human, painted in the delicate blues and pinks Picasso used in his youth.
...accentuate it; you see a beak, something else becomes an animal. It is a discovery trip, but you never know what you will find.'' To produce the intricately jeweled Eye of Silence, Ernst placed two wet painted canvases together, pulled them apart, let his fancy take over. At one time Ernst even experimented with a technique he called "oscillation.'' He pierced cans of paint and let them swing gently over the canvas. "Surprising lines drip upon the canvas, and the play of association then begins," he says. "Jackson Pollock made quite a nice adventure of this...