Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell University's West Sibley Hall had a jewel of a janitor-for a couple of hours, anyway, as Historian Clinton Rossiter, 49, scrabbled around with bucket and scrub brush. Rossiter doesn't think the hired help who are supposed to clean up the 100-year-old home of the government and history departments have been paying attention to his office. "The janitors have no time to clean up here," Rossiter announced, as he staged a protest "scrub-in" with six of his students and three other professors. "They're too busy watering the potted palms over...
Punji sticks bloomed like lethal lotus on every side, and bunkers by the dozen thrust from the sand dunes as the Marine company moved through the brush 14 miles northwest of Hué. The territory was familiar ground to the one civilian with the Marines: stout, cheerful Bernard Fall, who, by his books and visits to the country, had made himself the best-known international commentator on Viet...
...succeed exceptionally well. The late Portrait of a Woman from the Saint Louis Museum, and the small Portrait of a Man are exceptionally beautiful. They both have the characteristic dark background of Hals' late canvasses, and they demonstrate the virtuosity--particularly in Portrait of a Man--of the abbreviated brush stroke of his later period, and his incredible ability to capture the personality of his subject in paint...
...with grey-blue eyes, and the facial features of the child in this portrait do not fully correspond with other representations of Titus. The Man with the Red Cap, though of minor quality among Rembrandts, gives some indication of the deep emotional feeling and the expressive, abstracted brush stroke of Rembrandt's late paintings. The other three portraits and the landscape are of even less note...
...Head of an Old Man by Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most talented pupil, is one of this exhibition's outstanding pieces. The tiny square panel radiates deep emotional expression and contemplative moodiness. The heavy impasto (thickness of paint), the bold brush strokes, and the warm brown palette are reminiscent of Rembrandt portraiture at its best...