Word: frescoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That a modern artist should decorate such a 19th century shrine revolted many traditionalists. To them, the cherubs and rosy clouds of Jules-Eugène Lenepveu's academic fresco were perfectly at home in the Second Empire opera house. But one Frenchman disagreed-and he happened to be Minister of Culture André Malraux...
...last chemists have come to the artists' rescue. Synthetic paints, developed over the past 15 years, have proved so satisfactory that oils in time may seem as archaic as buono fresco. One in three U.S. artists has already switched to the new medium.* The converts range from Romantic Realist Thomas Hart Benton to Pop's Andy Warhol, from Collagist Alfonso Ossorio to Boris Artzybasheff, who used synthetic paint on the portrait of Lady Bird Johnson that appeared on TIME's cover...
Next day the Pope gathered before him in the Sistine Chapel the representatives sent to the council by 86 governments. Also attending was the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, G. Frederick Reinhardt. Earnestly John pointed to Michelangelo's great fresco of The Last Judgment. "The seriousness of it gives one much food for thought," he said. "We must indeed render an account to God, we and all the heads of state who bear responsibility for the fate of nations...
...taken two extra steps." He wastes no time trying to taunt a pitcher-"I don't wanna be a jumpin' jack. If I rile those pitchers, they'll be more anxious to get me than the batter." Even so. says Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, Wills's mere presence on base "can raise the batting average of the man behind him in the line-up by 20 or 30 points." Explosion of Dust. It can also be considerably disconcerting to opposing infielders. Some runners start their slide halfway down the base path, thus presenting a good...
...sailors on our ship--that of Messrs. Khinoy, Fresco, Bulliet, and Scott--had better focus their spyglasses before they start building lifeboats. For it's not leeberge, we're worried about, but another ship which is, in the eyes of our sailors, continually encroaching on our rightful waters. Of course, both vessels carry an overwhelming complement of hair-triggered cannon...