Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...
...associations made and transformations performed. Aspects of reality which would never be rationally juxtaposed are struck together--sparks fly. The typewriter eraser, for example, becomes a tornado in one series of drawings. The round rubber spins violently around the center screw (the eye of the tornado) and the trailing brush sweeps all before it, leaving a dust cloud in its wake. The seemingly innocuous object reveals itself as a force of destruction...
Visiting museums where I could appreciate the dignity and beauty of timeless artworks has always been an uplifting emotional experience for me. I have always left museums feeling enriched and proud of what sensitive men and women can create from an empty canvas with paints and a brush, from unformed stone or wood with a chisel...
There is a certain kind of urban character who, however lightly we brush against him, instantly leaks the psychopathy of everyday anguish all over us. He is a man working in a menial job that brings him into constant, envious touch with people more fortunate than he, a man enraged by the bad deal life has given him but unable to articulate that rage. Instead, he is given to fantasies ranging from the glumly sexual to the murderously violent. He is, finally, a man of muttered imprecations and sudden, brooding silences; which of these moods is most alarming is hard...
...procession of stories that make the front page or 60 seconds on network television constitutes the daily brush between the run-of-the-mine reporter and the run-of-the-mine businessman, with the latter caught in the glare of the spotlight. Here is where we are fed a daily diet of authoritative ignorance, most of which conveys a cheap-shot hostility to business and businessmen. Here is where the nation sees a persistently distorted image of its most productive and pervasive activity, business. The fact is most general reporters and editors are woefully ignorant of the complexities and ambiguities...