Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Fogg to Moscow, Van Gogh's paintings were sought and photographed. The camera could not adequately show his thick daubs of paint, but it does capture his magnificent coloring, including the electric yellows with which he described a world he thought illuminated by the brilliant light of God and His sun. Cinemascope and Metrocolor are also superbly used to recreate the scenes of his paintings. They trace his life from the family home in Holland to Borinage coal district in Belgium, where he served as a minister, and finally to sun-swept Arles where, during one of his attacks...
...paint the mural, involving a total of 120-odd figures, Johns Hopkins commissioned Painter Leon Kroll, 71, famed as "dean of U.S. nude-painters," who labored 2½ years on the task. Unquestioned hit of the series, and for Muralist Kroll ("I like women better than men") a labor of love, are the Baltimore belles. To record them, Kroll started with nude models (see cut), then borrowed or bought authentic turn-of-the-century gowns, used photographs and Baltimorites' recollections to recapture the exact features and coloring of the originals...
...decades have Manhattan muse um-and gallery-goers witnessed such a heaping helping of British art as is spread out before them this season. The main course, in the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town...
...claims filed under comprehensive policies, adds: "Many people, as soon as they get a little nick in the windshield, rush out and get a new one. There are a lot of nicks in windshields these days, and the problem of glass breakage is becoming acute." Two-toned paint jobs, rear ends that have reared up into expensive units, swooping chrome, power brakes and steering, windows and seats-all these have increased body repair costs...
Meanwhile, back at Princeton, seven Yalies took cans of blue paint and repainted the conservative white doors of several eating clubs with a revolutionary Connecticut blue...