Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...master of sophistries . . . I speak as a man who, for the past 18 years, has made a living as a salesman. I always have managed to make a living. I made a living selling magazine subscriptions in the depth of the Depression. I've sold sidewalling and paint; I've sold newspaper space and radio time; I've sold housewives hospital insurance and I've sold businessmen businesses. In short, sir, I'm the salesman you claim is dead. Confidentially, I'm still alive-in spite of management! In order to live...
When Junior impressionistically draws a horse in bright reds, Mother will chide: "Everybody knows that horses aren't red, dear. Why don't you paint brown horses?" That attitude is all wrong, thinks William McGonagle, of the Detroit Institute of Arts, who runs art workshops for children. Before he could really teach the youngsters, McGonagle decided two years ago, he would have to educate their par-"ents: he invited mothers and fathers to come along and study art with the kids. This week, completing his third "Family Workshop," in which parents painted, drew and sculpted alongside their grade...
Robert Motherwell's Collage is apt to strike laymen as just terrible, and young U.S. painters as just wonderful. His "abstract expressionism" might be defined as picturing nothing at all with a minimum of conscious effort-it makes art a game. Yet the thousands of contemporary artists who paint like Motherwell are a solemn lot on the whole, and as dedicated to their lonely games of self-expression as any academic realist is to copying things...
Franklin Watkins, who teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an older type of traditionalist. His Solitaire echoes in its modest way the efforts of such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec and such titans as Tintoretto. Combining human pathos and delightful paint, quality, the picture follows the ancient though rarely stated rule of appealing to laymen and artists equally...
...fared better in nonsense than paint...