Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore the weight of genius. He married once and well, reigned without thunder as the head of a large, adoring household, and could always take time to speak to a stranger or persuade...
...struggle with paralysis ended one day in 1919 when Renoir was 76. Kept to his room at the end by a lung infection, he worked for several hours on a still-life of anemones, then motioned for someone to take the brush from his stiffened hand. "I think," he said, as he looked at what was to be his last painting, "I am beginning to understand something about...
...Rock. Probably no artists ever followed so severe a technique as the Chinese, and no instrument of art has ever been devised as sensitive as the Chinese brush. In calligraphy, no matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there is such an emphasis...
...greeting has moved out of the domain of theater and show business circles (where everyone has already kissed everyone else, and only the handshake denotes abiding love), and is fast becoming party protocol across the U.S. Like players in a familiar charade, men and women purse lips and brush cheeks with each other; besides the laying on of cheekbones, the gesture is accompanied by a smacking of mouth...
...first brush with McCarthyism was thus scary, but indecisive. No one was certain Harvard had sufficient strength to withstand another attack. The answer came in the second quarter when Holy Cross scored 22 points in ten minutes...