Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great pounding rhythms which batter their way across the 18-ft. canvases, never for a moment out of control." Pollock was much more than "Drool School," conceded the Manchester Guardian. "Rich and splendid design of this quality and on this scale is infinitely rare." The Observer allowed that "the crude impression of a dotty exhibitionist spilling paint aimlessly over a canvas laid flat can be instantly scouted. Never, one surmises, was a pioneer more conscious of the effect he would eventually produce...
JUST how interesting Homer's earnest art was to remain, no Victorian could have guessed. In his day he seemed strong but crude. Now. in an age of infinitely cruder painting, it is the strength of Homer's honesty that tells. This week, 48 years after Homer's death. Washington's National Gallery is honoring his memory with a big retrospective show. The 241 pictures proved to the hilt that Homer's passion was for realizing life as he saw it. and as forthrightly as he possibly could. Said Museum Director John Walker...
...president, and later chairman of the board. Last year he began to find the position "worrisome," and retired to Palm Beach to paint. Now 64, and one year old as an artist, Nemerov is happy and unworried. Last week a Manhattan gallery put on a show of his crude but luminous and intensely colorful pictures based mainly on French impressionism. To Nemerov's astonishment, 31 pictures were sold in the first four days at prices...
...with which he preferred to write, feverishly covered sheets of yellow paper with what later be came The Last Tycoon. In that unfinished novel, Scott Fitzgerald put his own glowing version of his final romance-a version immensely more moving but also more idealized than Sheilah Graham's crude and curious respects to the author...
...specific issue is a simmering deal to build a $15 million plant to refine Venezuelan crude oil in Jamaica. Barbados-born, U.S.-naturalized Oilman Frank Desmond St. Hilaire proposes to finance a 16,500-bbl.-a-day refinery at Kingston, bankrolled by the U.S.'s Colorado Oil & Gas Corp. But Jamaica's legislature must pass a bill giving him a 15-year monopoly on oil refining in Jamaica-plus enticing tax concessions...