Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat sum of eight pesos ($4) a day decorating the corridors and patios of Mexico's public buildings with flaming murals. There were weighty men in that syndicate. Beside Rivera and Orozco there were such names as Jean Chariot, Carlos Merida and Pachecho. Their water boy and official brush washer was Miguel Covarrubias, now a highly paid smartchart caricaturist. Artist Orozco meanwhile was experimenting with the medium that was to bring him his greatest success: true fresco, painting in tempera on wet plaster so that the design becomes a part of and not an application to the wall...
...Carnegie Institute and the American Federation of Arts, sponsored by ex-Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and Dr. Frederick A. Keppel. Artist Orozco himself is further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards at a time. "Fresco painting," explained Artist Orozco, "has much to do with the time of day. If I start one piece at ten in the morning, I must start...
Recently fortune has frowned on kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Augustine. Year ago he was driven from power. Month ago, interned by the government on an estate at Kroettingen as a menace to public safety he made an abortive effort to escape (TIME, Aug. 11). Fortnight ago Mme Waldemaras went to a fortune teller. The oracle, emerging from his trance, informed Mme Waldemaras that her husband would regain political power over the bodies of twelve persons. She went back to the internment farm and that night M & Mme Waldemaras drew up a little list. First on the list was Colonel Rusteika...
...rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules of a peculiar, a social kind of shooting. No lone hunter with dog and gun can stroll into the brush. The grouse industry is so well organized that to shoot one must rent or own a moor or get invited by someone who does. Rents are based on the bags of grouse that game- keepers estimate can be raised on the property. The usual price is about $5 per estimated...
...month the ist Lady of Minto has been missing from her accustomed place in London's Mayfair district. Her place is in the art gallery of Victor Gilbert Lariston Garnet Murray-Kynnyn-mond Elliott, the present (5th) Earl of Minto. Done in the 18th century by the masterful brush of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the ist Lady of Minto's value as last estimated was anywhere up to $150,000. When the theft was discovered His Grace posted a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the thief, the return of his ancestress...