Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some models are so famous and sought after that they appear in the works of painter after painter, and their names, like Suzanne Valadon or Kiki of Montparnasse, become almost bywords for an epoch. Their faces and bodies become familiar, delineated as they were by brush after brush, but America's best-known model may well be remembered for one view, and that of the back of her head. Her middle name is the title of one of the all-time bestselling reproductions, Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World...
...genuine desire to help poor nations" but they offer no evidence for the charge. This indictment amounts to a new claim of guilt by association. For all its faults the Peace Corps is the best thing that this nation is doing abroad, and to tar it with the brush of "arrogance" and "colonialism" merely because it is an agency of the U.S. government strikes me as both unsophisticated and dishonest. Efrem Sigel '64 Associate Managing Editor, 1964; Peace Corps Volunteer, the Ivory Coast...
...Rubens of the billboards, is doing equally well on this side of the Atlantic. The sometime sign painter from Grand Forks, N. Dak., stars this month with 32 works at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (see color opposite). Gifted with pop art's most facile brush, Rosenquist was a smash with his first Manhattan show in 1962. His huge, bold panoramas combine the photo-simulated faces, glossily glamorized foods and chrome-plated gadgetry of Madison Avenue in weird compositions where objects seem to float off the canvas. In their own way, they are also a wry celebration...
...style of the 1930s thai some observers believe heralds the ad vent of a whole new nostalgic school of art. Rosenquist has taken to painting his images onto transparent Mylar, then slicing it into strips to create a new kind of "walk-through sculpture." But he will not abandon brush and can vas. "Oil painting may be old-fashioned," he says, "but I don't think any medium is dead-as long as a person can prove his intuition by using...
...prayer house, about as big as one of those very large doll houses in an F.A.O. Schwartz catalogue was as bare as could be except for a mat, a teapot, a tooth brush, and, disconcertingly, a stack of American comic books. I haven't any idea what they were doing there...