Word: glaze
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...reproduction," he says. "Egypt was a book to them; so was Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic Remington...
...Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...
...contracts were let by the Air Force at fancy prices. Examples: $23,800 for 28 wooden tent frames, each 16 by 32 ft.; $6,000 to paint and glaze a six-room shack for Base Operations; $25,720 for three latrines; $45,715 for a combination theater, recreation hall and basketball court. Workers, expecting to get something resembling the wages paid in the U.S., got only 64 francs (19? an hour, the lowest possible wage in the Bordeaux area...
...title from a recruiting poster. The picture shows the impact of the Korean War on a movie-typical U.S. middle-class family and concludes tearfully that home ties must yield to the tug of patriotic duty. Producer Sam Goldwyn coats this sternly real subject with a shiny glaze of sentimentality...
...like the glaze...