Detail of a Terry Winters painting: Degas' 'Dance Studio': the paint looks like it as smeared and daubed on with cloth here and there. Contrasts with the sharp precise edges of the paint on the red fan lying on the floor. Shockingly realistic when exhibited, it has a classical use of subdued tones to make the flashes of colour stand out more brightly. Daumier 'At The Print Studio' and Bellows '47 kids': both were illustrators, caricaturists, but Bellows' figures and faces are far more exaggerated and cartoonish. Daumier looks like a mainstream Impressionist by comparison. Stuart Davis, 'Study for a Swing Landscape', 1938: the texture of paint in all the abstract shapes really catches the eye. makes it a sensual and not a mechanical exercise. Sargent, portrait from 1883: Such a technically brilliant painter, like Manet & Velazquez combined. The overlaying of thick flourishes of white paint on top of warm grey glazes keeps the surface al...
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