Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Czar Peter himself-Cozens' family genealogists differ. He made his reputation in England not as an artist but as an "Instructor in Drawing to the Young Princes" and as the author of such curious treatises as The Principles of Beauty relative to the Human Head and the New Method for assisting the Invention in the Composition of Landscape...
Cozens' new method was a queer one, and never saw general use. As a contemporary described it, the artist "dashed out upon several pieces of paper a series of accidental smudges and blots in black, brown and grey, which, being floated on, he impressed again on another paper and . . . converted into romantic rocks, woods, towers, steeples, cottages, rivers, fields and waterfalls...
Having hit upon the trick accidentally when one of his drawing papers was stained, Cozens found it a useful method of getting his students to concentrate on the main shapes of an imaginary landscape instead of on niggling outlines. "In Nature," he wrote, "forms are not distinguished by lines but by shape and colour." Antedating impressionism by more than a century, Cozens might be called its great-grandfather. His students and his son John Robert imitated Cozens' spontaneity and broad brush work; Turner and John Constable imitated theirs, and the French impressionists took over from there...
...Last Supper," says Dom Gregory, "Jesus was performing the ordinary Jewish method of saying grace. He performed the usual four actions before supper and the usual three actions after. He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it; He took the cup of wine, blessed it and passed it around. But at this last supper, He told those with Him to do this accustomed thing with a slightly new meaning-'This is My Body which is for you. Do this for the recalling...
Houghton started out by hiring Architect John M. Gates and Sculptor Sidney Waugh to work together on new designs. They cleared the shelves for a fresh start by a simple method: they got lead pipes from the factory, smashed the worst of the old glassware...