Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That Kim Novak cover is one of the coldest and most frivolous paintings I have ever seen of anyone. Robert Vickrey may see Novak chewing beads-but it is more likely a representation of Vickrey chewing his paint brush in frustration at not being able to portray a truly classic physiognomy...
...name glitters for us lit by the rays of his black sun. But he was uncertain how far he was entitled to his phantoms, and still more uncertain how far his phantoms were entitled to enter the domain of art. He waited twenty years before giving them, in paint, their tyrannous accent...
When the new Turkish republic of Kemal Ataturk took over from the moribund Ottoman Empire after World War I, the ancient glories of Constantinople were already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing...
...Says Artist Henry Koerner, who does not paint with a palette knife: "I used the only brush that can be used-a 626B Grumbacher...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...