Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the birds do their bit for the classless society. On de luxe partridge and pheasant shoots on the old Habsburg preserves in northern Czechoslovakia, hunters stay in luxurious castles: black tie for dinner is de rigueur. In the mornings, hundreds of peasants fan out through the brush to drive the birds into range. Daily bags run as high as 140 birds per gun. Cost of a "royal weekend," as Red tourist folders unashamedly...
...caused a row at the 1924 Salon des Indépendants because it took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane, took him four months to paint...
...furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel, but he was horrified to see that they used no toothbrushes. He sent them some, and was even more horrified when the girls used them to brush their hair...
...Londoners are sure, meticulous professionals who paint as if every brush stroke were their last. They are totally uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...
...then the Charger's job is no more modern than its look; the turboprop plane is a jungle fighter, a volunteer for the brush-fire wars of today's world. It can strafe a target at 50 m.p.h., yet escape from danger at eight times that speed. It can airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike...