The triumph was the Vitascope, a machine that "projects upon a large area of canvas groups that appear to stand forth from the canvas, and move with great facility and agility, as though actuated by separate impulses".
Evoking Ad Reinhardt's ultimate paintings of the 60s, Leggett writes in chalky lettering on a painted black canvas, "This group show of Abstract painters will answer all the questions the last group show of mostly the same Abstract painters didn't.
As Bingham described the canvas, the group in the foreground consists of "a venerable patriarch and his family who have just been ejected from their dwelling," which Kansas troops are about to burn.
In 1996 Mr. Cherry's widow put it on the block atSotheby's, where Mr. Kirkham bought it for $7.2 million.Now Sotheby's predicts this boldly colorful canvas, depictinga group of young women huddled together, will fetch$24 million to $28 million.
I agree with Srdja Popovic, the Belgrade-based executive director of CANVAS, a group that travels the world teaching democracy movements how to engage in nonviolent struggle — ideas based on the successful movement, Otpor!, that Serb students organized in the late 1990s that was instrumental in defeating Slobodan Milosevic.
A canvas represents a group of workers gathered below a portrait of Stalin.
The small canvas depicts a group of priests prostrate at a church.
His "Sailors," a 1966 gray-toned canvas, depicts a group of sailors in his signature blurry style.
Now Sotheby's predicts this boldly colorful canvas, depicting a group of young women huddled together, will fetch $24 million to $28 million.
The one Art Everywhere work I have seen in, as it were, real life is a poster of John Singer Sargent's frieze-like canvas, Gassed, a group of blinded Great War Tommies leading each other through the trenches.
The set piece here is the enormous "Vietnam II" (1973), whose cinematic-scale canvas depicts two groups of figures, a trio of soldiers and a tank pointing guns at a scraggly group of terrified Vietnamese, led by a young man screaming.
