Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painters did not consciously strive for all the shades of significance which plodding German critics like to read into their works. They just painted. It is therefore the surrealists' premise that all that is necessary to produce art is to stand in front of a canvas with a wet brush in your hand and give your emotions a free rein. Surrealist Crotti is so certain of the value of his products that he rejects oil paint as too impermanent, works only in lacquer. All his colors are especially ground for him with varnish or turpentine as a base...
Gloomy figures confronted U. S. Protesant churchmen last week. To the monthly meeting of the administrative committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America went Rev. Arva Brush Keeler, director of the department of Buildings & property of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. Director Keeler told the committee that Protestant churches in the U. S. owe some $135.000,000. Church bonds amounting to $6,000,000 or more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested...
Near Canterbury in England there is a title brush grown field. The Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this...
...accent and pleat-waisted trousers do not fit Arrowsmith's Midwest origins but his performance is valid in other respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...
...Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed...