Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces, mop floor, vacuum rugs . . . This order makes sense: it chases the dirt from above to below. But operas don't work this...
Buccaneer's Rush. With the canvas well primed. Mathieu paused to swig down a frothing glass of Japanese beer while assistants propped the work up against the wall. Then, glaring like a buc caneer about to board ship, he kicked at the debris of brushes, tubes and bottles, plunged one brush into a bowl of white paint, grasped a second brush in his teeth, and rushed at the canvas. A white cross with red outline appeared on one side, a yellow squiggle on the other...
...returned to the beer and charged again. Aiming a 5-ft. brush like a lance, he carved broad, pink lines running the length of the 25-ft. canvas. From then on, the battle raged with such fury that Mathieu was soaked in paint, turpentine and sweat. Soon the Japanese, usually polite before foreigners, were roar ing with laughter, shouting delightedly after each stroke...
...Pasadena, San Diego and San Francisco. In the exhibition catalogue, Art Historian Lloyd Goodrich of Manhattan's Whitney Museum went full out for Stallknecht's work, describing her as "a 'natural'; she puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels, probably coincidental, do not affect the authentic originality...
Junior Painters. A complete kit for children to repaint their own toys or wooden furniture has been put on sale by Ampruf Paint Co. of New Jersey. Kit contains three small cans of nontoxic, quick-drying paint, brush and cleaner, painter's cap and gloves, sandpaper and mixing paddle. Cost...