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`` I am thoroughly convinced that most watercolors suffer because the artist expects nature will do his composing for him ; ;

as a result, such pictures are only a literal translation of what the artist finds in the scene before him.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

The interior designer, then, must first be an artist but also understand carpentry and painting and lighting and plumbing and finance.

Instead of isolating the literal flatness by specifying and circumscribing it, the pasted paper or cloth releases and spreads it, and the artist seems to have nothing left but this undepicted flatness with which to finish as well as start his picture.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

Nevertheless I consider it reasonable, because of my commitment as an artist, to assume that the rights and responsibilities of creative individuals are related to humanity as a whole rather than to specific geo-political interests.

A process of elimination which leaves the artist with nothing but the play of his materials themselves cannot sustain interest in either artist or public for very long.

Walton, who served as a correspondent with General James Gavin's paratroopers during the invasion of France, combines the soul of an artist with the lingo of a tough guy.

The artist who paints in oil uses drying oils to carry the pigments and to protect his finished work for the ages.

If, in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends, you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child's grandmother watching this event, you have begun to be an artist in film ; ;

There still remained the need for one great film artist to explore the full potential of the new form and to make it an art.

The new promotion manager has been employed by the company since January, 1946, as a commercial artist in the advertising department.

Noted artist

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

This is when his troubles begin, not to mention a fledgling artist who he hires, and who turns out to have ideas of his own, with particular respect to the hero's sweetheart-secretary.

His portrayal of an edgy head-in-the-clouds artist is virtually flawless.

Furthermore, he's something of a scoundrel, an artist whose mind and feelings are all finger-tips.

By the end of the third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other shells.

It might be argued that the Communists are less inhuman than the Nazis and furnish the artist with drama in a lower key.

Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels.

On the whole, however, one must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch her own reputation as time marches inexorably on.