Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...
...notion that "the breaking of forms by light creates colored figurations. These colored figurations are the structure of the picture, and nature is no longer a subject of description." The theory was revolutionary. Said Delaunay: "Thus far, a tree was green, a sky was blue. Now we shall paint colors because color is a goal in itself...
...More to Say." He began painting spheres of all sizes, combinations and complexity, weaving them inside each other and coloring them simply and brightly. During World War I, Portuguese police who saw him painting enormous disks on vast expanses of canvas at his seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of drawing signals for German submarines. They found as many a gallerygoer has, that Delaunay's circles were meaningless. Delaunay's output was small: he painted only about 400 oils. When pressed to paint more pictures, he used to protest, "I can only paint when I have something...
...Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...
...handful of romantic painters from Manhattan discovered the good life on summer outings to the leafy glades of the Catskills (and incidentally founded the first self-conscious U.S. regional group, the Hudson River School). Ever since, artists have made it a habit to pack up canvas and paints, take off for a working summer vacation. In the current paint-for-paint's-sake decade, artists continue to take the bus, borrow a car or hitchhike to the summer Bohemias, where they crowd the bars and grow summer beards...