Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother, an artist, died last year, and his ghost has now taught me to paint...
...Helen Frankenthaler. 28, well-to-do Bennington College graduate ('49), a standout exhibitor in all three shows who ranks high with the elder Abstract Expressionists as one of the few painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues...
Through the cold-water flats, walk-up studios, automats and bars where Manhattan's artists live and congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting...
...last year. Ward's Reports said Detroit production will ride at a near record for the first quarter largely because sales-happy Ford and Chrysler will push output 30% ahead of last year. On the other hand, motormakers are paring their stockpiles of steel, aluminum, glass, rubber and paint to normal minimums. Their steel-buying has fallen below their production ever since last July, is now down to a 20-to 30-day supply. As Republic Steel Sales Manager L. S. Hamaker explained: "The auto industry has simply reverted to the old practice of letting suppliers worry about inventory...
...once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry in the world. Fresh coats of paint covered the weather-beaten buildings, ramshackle structures were being razed, new signs warned filthy-booted fishermen: PLEASE KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE FLOOR. Among the pier's old salts the word was: "The boys have taken over...