Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...well-proportioned heroes and heroines correctly modeled in conventional poses. Young Rodin easily licked his contemporaries at that game. His male nude Age of Bronze caused a scandal at the "Paris Salon of 1877" because the judges mistakenly supposed it must have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were comparatively chill. His line and wash drawings were among his most...
...details than does Andrew Wyeth. If a picture is rich enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks...
...temperas, mostly records of the Pennsylvania countryside and Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in dramatizing the obvious, as Wyeth does in his crystalline Spindrift. The earthier Eakins would never have attempted Soaring...
...Make It Look Easy. Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating...
...Boss Wasn't Interested. Sam Newhouse plans to make few changes in the paper. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, liberal president of Portland's Reed College (TIME, May 3, 1948) as well as chairman of the board of Portland's First National Bank, will stay on as president. The editorial staff will be virtually unchanged. As is his custom, Democrat Newhouse will keep his distance from most editorial decisions (most of his papers are independent Republican), but will keep close tabs on everything else as he does on his other papers...