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Art
Farber, Manny | June 16, 1951 issue

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The article presents the author's comments on comic-strip art. Some comic strip artists are Chet Gould and Mike Caniff. The author says that until the impressionists blurred the outlines of objects and diffused the near, middle and far distance into smog of light and dark, design had been realized in terms of outline and the weight of the enclosed shape. Today the only linear surgeons carrying on the practice are the cartoonists, whose masterful use of a dashing pen line goes virtually unnoticed in the art world. The rococo, squiggling composition of the average comic strip is too intricate, difficult and un-orthodox for cultured eyes grown lazy on the flaccid drawing with color technique and the pillow like form of modern painting.

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ART, Modern; COMIC books, strips, etc.; IMPRESSIONISM (Art); ARTISTS; PAINTING; AESTHETICS
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