Word: drip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern crafts, consumer products and heavy industrial machines in an intricate maze of buildings. Its best attraction is an outdoor demonstration of samurai dueling, Kabuki players and judo experts, as well as the tea-ceremony performance, where the ancient disciplines are enacted by pretty Japanese hostesses in gorgeous, drip-dry kimonos...
...tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...
...Marlborough exhibition (see color pages) shows that Pollock dripped most expressively, but he did much more than drip. The farmer's son from Cody, Wyo., was abstract expressionism's most inventive artist and its unquestioned pioneer of new forms...
...Deep. It was never simple for Pollock. Friends saw him, a cigarette smoldering on his lip, emerge from his studio limp as a wet dishrag. In 1953 Pollock took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep...
...progress is advancing from the lab to the bedside. Factor VIII is now being extracted from human plasma and concentrated about 30 times. It is given by intravenous drip to victims of hemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease when they have crises of massive bleeding. Except in such emergencies, the usual treatment for all the clotting disorders remains a transfusion of fresh whole blood or plasma-not to replace blood that the patient has lost, but to supply the missing clotting factor and thus keep him from losing more...