Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winning friends is no problem. The man intent on social conquest knows by subliminal heart that he need generally do no more than brush between meals or settle down with a stronger soap. At most, he has only to step up his vocabulary; sometimes it is simply a matter of developing more prominent pectoral muscles. It is how to lose friends that has become the contemporary American dilemma, and a tactical...
...paints with freewheeling, impetuous brush strokes. Yet her stimulus stems from what she sees. "It's a quality of color that leads me into the painting," says she. "I start with the sky and everything seems to develop out of it." Her skies are rarely blue. Especially in her city scenes, they are overcast; always they are suffused with a pattern of sweeping bright pastels that progress in orderly fashion through a hesitant horizon down into the richer-hued grounds. Her canvases are generally square, giving the illusion of more loft of sky than breadth of horizon...
Although it makes them writhe, they are called "hard edge" painters. Among artists of the New York school, the term separates them from the earlier, fast-draw action abstractionists, who painted with splatter, splash or broad-brush lunge. These second-generation abstractionists strive for a well-wrought finish, rather than a random record of trial and error...
...before the viewer a psychological tension, an ambiguity, a presence that appears after a few minutes' looking. The greatest divorce from action painting lies in the works of the late Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis. Thinning oils with turpentine, they stained pigment into unsized canvas so that the brush stroke is invisible but the colors clash like a warring spectrum...
...eighteen that William decided to pursue a career in painting. Vainly he had striven to escape the lure of the brush during a restless summer in Germany. He yearned for a decisive test of his mettle. Since early boyhood he had painted, and his skill and interest had long been recognized...