Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zensho Shimasu." Park has formally petitioned the Japanese government 23 times to talk to the Soviets about the Koreans in Sakhalin. And 23 times Tokyo has responded "Zensho shimasu," or "We will act with prudence," a polite phrase the bureaucracy uses to brush off cranks and oddballs. Undaunted, Park has written endless letters to the stranded Koreans, using their replies to build an impressive dossier showing the indifference of governments...
...truly contemporary artist must orchestrate an "event" out of the materials immediately at hand. In that light, Allott may be seen to have orchestrated the specific mood that precipitated the rape, thus fashioning his own particular happening. On another level, Allott has expressed such acid contempt of his brush-wielding anthropophagi that the rape could conceivably symbolize the crude assault that some sad creature might make on a subject that he is totally incapable of mastering, either through study or craft...
...life of love although she did not know for what, unless it was for small pictures which occurred to her or which she saw in quiet moments alone staring at the whiteness of the castled city or across the Bay to reddened mountains and leonine hills with yellowed brush tumbling from their sides...
...wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...
...finish of the film they'll happen on. Mostly men buy 300 passes to the triple-X-rated features each day. These movies are made for men, she says. They realize that she knows what they plan on doing in there, and they're timid. A few Orientals brush by with their hands shoved stiffly into their pockets. They probably came down Beach St. from China Town...