Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes by a Pond...
...scenes congenial to the Romantic taste; by contrast, Constable's themes seemed merely homely. Turner was a poet of the imagination, Constable a poet of the real. Turner saw a vision of hell in a snow storm; Constable could see a vision of heaven in a blade of grass. Posterity can be grateful to both...
...makes him feel better, even though grass is supposed to be a depressant. He smokes to make himself less stoned. One ounce and a water-pipe. He climbed into a black leather easy-chair, the black chick sat down on his lap, and started to play with his hair. She took the pipe and wide-eyed as Sambo sucked on it. She coughed...
...going to smoke some grass?" asked the blonde...
Murphy said Buildings and Grounds is currently trying hard to make the grass grow in the Yard again. He said the salt that was ground into the soil during the big snow storms and the strikers who stood on the ground at the beginning of the spring almost ruined the grass completely...