Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry observed that "in the modern story, males are always insensitive, and brush children off. Females, however, are sympathetic. All women are good in the twentieth century...
...Replacement of chaparral (Southwestern for brush) by grass improves water yield...
...ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...
Like Daumier, Yeats was a master of the candid snapshot (see color), but unlike Daumier, he was not out to scourge the human race. By the time he painted The Horse Lover in 1930, his technique was loose, almost wild. The brush often surrendered to the palette knife; flat statement gave way to poetic suggestion; line and color broke and quivered with emotion. "Yeats," said Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka on hearing of the Waddington exhibition, "was an outsider who did not follow or belong to any school. All his work bears the mark of fantastic imagination and individuality...
...subject folds her hands." Then, after several days of thinking about the subject-planning "the color, the composition, what should be left out and what put in," Bouche paints rapidly. "Painting," he says, "has to be spontaneous, to leap from the guts to the brush. It's like a bullfight. The man has 25 minutes to fight the bull. He can't think during that time, but all his life goes into the preparation...