Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he says that his eyesight is growing weaker in his dim cell, Siqueiros still wields a dancing brush that creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. His jail-made Dancer wishfully wraps a cape of anatomy around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...
...monkey out of modern art. This time it was Peter, 4½, a West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation that its tart flavor was what inspired...
...Diaghilev, Les Noces ends the series of "barbaric" ballets that includes L'Oiseau de Feu, Petrouchka, and Le Sacre du Printemps. Like the others, it embodies Russian folk spirit, according to Stravinsky. It is a setting of peasant remarks, mostly cliches, appropriate to a wedding: "Mother, brush my tresses"; "glory to the father, glory to the mother"; "to the wedding, to the wedding...
Despite the current spate of difficulties, the U.S. is not reaching for panic buttons. Nobody doubts U.S. primacy as a world power-though there is doubt whether that power is being used effectively. Nobody is really worried, either, that a big war is imminent, or even that a brush-fire war will grow out of last week's problems. But the problem still must be dealt with, as Lyndon Johnson sees only too well in grappling with his hot-spotted map. "We cannot treat each of these troubles as an isolated crisis in itself," he told a visitor last...
Tortured by self-doubt and the derision of the public press, Pollock gave up the brush for the bottle. His forays from his remote Long Island studio into New York frequently ended in barroom squabbles at the abstract expressionists' hangout, the old Cedar Bar. Painter Barnett Newman tried to keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill...