Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ponca City-born Robert Camblin thus reported his painter's dream come true, a year abroad with nothing to do but soak up the scenery, visit the museums and paint his head off. The results of his year in Italy-along with paintings by 59 other equally lucky artists-are on view this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. They were picked by the museum's new director, Lloyd Goodrich, from among the 194 U.S. artists who have worked abroad on U.S. Government (Fulbright) scholarships, paid in local currencies from the sale...
Author VanOrden sends them all off to Italy on holiday. They are herded, shooed and advised, but never chaperoned, by a sophisticated marchesa. Living in a Florentine convent, they talk, dream, paint, write, compose, writhe in the agonies of their love affairs, while the sisters of the convent go calmly about their business and the great art of Florence forms a soothing backdrop. Author VanOrden's plot seems hardly worth the time. What is best about her flashingly literate book is the handsomely sketched Florentine setting, against which the bright chatter of her young Americans seems like a volatile...
NOMILY: "No. In sober moments I paint delicate, soft colored Chinese silk screen landscapes...
...paint Jimmy Hoffa's face black and send him to Arkansas? They will take care...
American abstract expressionist painting "is not likely to be rubbed out." It just does not exist. That stuff is an effort to paint, which is frustrated by robot ethics-America's interpretation of what culture is. America has no human culture whatsoever...