Word: marination
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...swell his income to around $100,000 a year, to potter around his estate at "Chartwell," where he relaxes by putting up small brick buildings-he once belonged to a bricklayers' union-to play a little polo, paint tolerable landscapes which he exhibited under the name of "Charles Marin," and to organize a group of some 30 Tory M.P.s who challenged Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy...
...started when envious French fisherfolk noting that perfidious Britons had built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...Britain's eyes are everywhere. The Foreign Office protested. Hurriedly France sent seaplanes which dropped orders to desist. Painter Marin-Marie and 40 Breton fishermen took their defeat in good part, drank a glass of champagne, sang the Marseillaise, desisted...
...technical facility, and his paintings prove him to be a fine craftsman. Really good art, however, does not consist in mere excellence of handling a give medium. Homer uses color well, and his paintings are beautiful, but there is no mark of actual and reverberating content in his work. Marin, on the other hand, with his contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves to show traces of nineteenth century French...
This exhibit, necessarily incomplete, is more than adequate, however. In it we can follow sketchily the general development of watercolor painting in our country, see work by Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that...