ART-THEMED crossword
(published by Artists & Illustrators magazine in March 2001)

by Eddie James

Across

Adams I'd reinterpreted for a 20C art movement (7)
Rather a drag to use this outline-softening technique? (7)
Designs made by girl on sea birds (8)
11 Embedded, fashionable Dali movement (6)
12/30 Just picture yourself painting this! (4,8)
13 What cheap paint does in landscape, Elsie! (5)
14 Created thread – was revolutionary! (4)
15 Lazily copies a picture – of misshapen crates (6)
16 Gas Monet used to make composite pictures (8)
19 No evidence of a close shave with such a brush feature (8)
23 Really hate Ted's ET composition (6)
25 Some Constable design ran one colour into another (4)
27 Knight follows this English painter of ballet and circus! (5)
28 Shape Miro valued to some extent (4)
29 Colour that makes you shout "That hurt!" (6)
30 See 12
31 Arp's twisted end of key to use an aerosol (5)
32 Emmy's backward attempt to achieve balance and evenness of form (8)

Down

A mature sort of 'Sunday painter' (7)
Crafty products! (9)
Bands - a feature of Bridget Riley's op art pictures (7)
Looking very embarrassed about using such a gaudy colour? (7)
Blends the beginnings of Matisse, Ensor, Lely, Dali and Sisley (5)
In Schiele, I surely find recreation (7)
10 Oddly, Matisse is missing vapour (5)
15 Part of magenta-blue flap (3)
17 Cor! Seurat's odd for a programme of painting instruction! (3,6)
18 Take a chair to be an artist's model (3)
20 Stand-ins for small, projecting sculptures? (7)
21 Slowly, right, makes a painter of northern England townscapes (1,1,5)
22 Carves out an artistic career? (7)
23 Illustrative sketch makes a grim ad (7)
24 A red his mixing makes more cloudy (7)
26 Buyer and seller of art loses direction – so here's a word from our sponsor! (5)

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