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...Motors and Chrysler are trumpeting a sweeping redesign of their smaller models. Now hitting showrooms % is a new type of compact, one that approximates the flowing, sculpted looks and sheer drivability usually found only in sports and luxury cars -- in short, a kind of Everyman's Porsche. Ford's Contour and Mercury Mystique, Chrysler's Cirrus and Dodge Stratus, and GM's retooled Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire will feature from 120 to 170 h.p. (vs. 90 or under for many older compacts). Formerly upscale-only features like dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic mirror controls will be standard...
...view of the world. The Rev. Robert walker skates on black ice on a dark day. His attire is pure white, not the traditional dark suit of a reverend. And his face is as dark as the background, distinguishable because of the small traces of white that outline the contour of his profile. We are able to identify the image, but fulfill it when we provide our own light...
...this exhibition is to see why Charles Baudelaire, reviewing the Paris Salon of 1845, placed Daumier, as a draftsman, in the company of Ingres and Delacroix. He was, of course, different from both. Unlike Ingres, Daumier wasn't interested in ideal form or perfect "Greek" contour, even though classical prototypes inform his work -- how far, one can easily judge from his scenes of refugees straggling across an open landscape, which bear a distinct relation to the friezes on Trajan's Column, known to him from engravings. He loved to guy the sacred Antique, but it was the kind of satire...
Derain demonstrates his love for contour in his watercolors. Whether the contours are angular, as in "Personnages," or sinuous, as in "Nude, 1935," the use of line is Derain's primary tool of manipulation...
Chagall, the surrealist, offers no signs of architectural or sculptural space in his color lithographs. His lithographs appear soft on the surface; instead of using a single line to delineate a contour, he uses several smaller strokes. His method of transformation of nature uses the surrealist and soft impression as its primary tool...