Honed by years of novel-writing, Norman's ability to create an immersive, sustained scene is far beyond the powers of most memoirists, and he relies heavily on this ability; he seems uninterested in telling us what it all means or employing the witty, facile technique of retrospective awareness more typical of memoir.
In selecting from his back catalogue for exhibitions (his work features in a group show at the Chris Beetles gallery in London from November 20) and anthologies (Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy, Unauthorised Portraits, etc), Sorel plumps for aesthetic technique over witty storylines.
By contrast, everybody looked spiffy in Mr. Morris's witty academic inversions of ballet technique in "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes".
Having previously applied his signature techniques of eccentric, devilishly witty bricolage towards successful excursions to our Moon and to the planet Mars, this fall Sachs and his crew remake San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts into mission control for Space Program: Europa.
Although Mr. Thile, an alumnus of Nickel Creek, can toss off witty, jazz-flavored bluegrass solos with breathtaking velocity, his technique is merely the starting point for serious experiments in genre bending that incorporate music ranging from Bach to Radiohead.
Using relatively simple techniques, he gets results that are both witty and startling.
The Spirit is celebrated as one of the most influential comics, with its dense, witty plotting, nuanced characters and film-noir style storytelling techniques.
Lou Fine, who was known for drawing just like Eisner, called Woolfolk "the Shakespeare of comics". The Spirit is celebrated as one of the most influential comics, with its dense, witty plotting, nuanced characters and film-noir style storytelling techniques.
Magritte's paintings, while traditional in technique (often oil on canvas), are innovative and witty in concept.
While Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina had set the mould with their darkly classical beauty, Lopokova was a witty soubrette, her performances on stage less a refinement of pure technique than the product of a vivid, versatile intelligence and a fizzing personality.
The great-grandson of the vaudeville comic Billy Marx and a founding member of the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Mr. Munisteri is known for creating witty, bittersweet pieces that seamlessly blend quirky, gestural movement vocabulary with immaculate technique.
