Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matisse divides his attention equally between model and picture, turning from one to another with the quick, concentrated attention of a fan at a tennis match. When he looks at the model his brush hovers in midair; when he turns back to the canvas it hesitates a split second, then dips and weaves as swiftly as a swallow building a nest...
...nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...
...July 26, about the aged Chinese painter, Ch'ih Pai-shih . . . According to your article he sells his pictures for a dollar. Knowing a bargain when I hear about one in the art market, I sent him $1 cash . . . and today the picture really arrived, a traditional Chinese brush painting of a pair of shrimps. His calligraphy is gross but his figures are sensitive and beautiful...
...past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
...sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death. But as in a tight-rope act, danger is the attraction, not death...