Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week, the fourth week of recovery, the President may be carried or lifted to a chair; he will be permitted to paint a little while in bed. By the end of that week he may be sitting up all day. If all goes well, he will be allowed to have one business conference a day, may have a friend or two in to visit. In the fifth week, he probably will take a few steps; in the sixth he should be able to walk slowly. At the end of the sixth week, or about Nov. 6, he should...
...moment Calcagno signed up, the California School, under Painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rotako, was the center of abstract painting on the West Coast. Students cut out the preliminaries, went straight to work slapping paint on canvas "to get through to an immediate sensory perception...
Left Bank Protest. Moving on to Paris, Calcagno checked in with the Paris art schools, but continued to paint his own way. He went to Italy and drenched himself in Renaissance art; another winter he spent living in a peasant's house on Elba, and worked directly from nature. When his money ran out, he went to Casablanca, signed up as a paint spray-gun operator, working side by side with Moroccan laborers at U.S. air bases. Back in Paris with money in his pocket, he found himself elected chairman of a group of fellow Left-Bank expatriates...
...that got Ehrenburg into all his trouble. The Thaw's plot may be summarized as the ups and downs of a pack of dull-spirited clods on the greasy pole of Soviet respectability. Will Jurayliov with his uncultured principles continue as factory manager? Will Artist Volodya ever paint anything as good as his big picture of "The Feast at the Collective Farm?" The whole thing is written in Piltdown Prose-both primitive and phony...
Even closer to the midstream of popular U.S. taste was Long Islander William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), who once noted in hsi diary: "I must paint such pictures as speak at once to the spectator . . . that will be understood in an instant." In paintings such as Banjo Player (opposite), Mount proved he knew his audience. Infused today with the nostalgic glow of yesteryear, they are kept just this side of sentimentalism by Mount's careful craftsmanship and observant eye. In their quiet way, they look good for many years to come...