Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting of the President for this cover is a first for TIME in that it was done in collaboration by two artists: Peter Kurd, who has painted a number of covers for us, and his wife, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, whose portrait of her brother, famed Artist Andrew Wyeth, was our Christmas cover in 1963. The Hurds, who usually paint in separate studios on their ranch at San Patricio, N. Mex., saw the President at the White House, along with Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey. For 2½ hours, while the President and Steele...
...hides those spaces unknown and where one day we shall be unified." Two days after Christmas 1950, while pursuing his imaginary lions on a morning walk in Manhattan's Central Park, Beckmann, aged 66, suffered a fatal heart attack and passed through to the space he tried to paint...
...cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...
Bubbles & Salts. There are two conventional ways of fireproofing wood and wood products, including paper and fiberboard. One is to coat them thickly with paint that releases carbon dioxide when heated and forms a layer of protective bubbles. This process serves satisfactorily for mild fires, but the bubble layer cannot resist intense or prolonged heat. The other system is to impregnate wood with various salts, but this weakens the wood and adds as much as 25% to its weight...
...Sunday paintings of D. H. Lawrence have long been a source of licentious but frustrated fascination because few people have ever seen them. I put a phallus in each one of my pictures somewhere," Lawrence told a painter friend, "and I paint no picture that won't shock people's castrated social, spirituality." The London police obliged by closing up Lawrence's first showing in 1929. Now, at last collected and vended by Viking Press (Paintings of D. H. Lawrence; $12.50), the long-forbidden fruit proves to have been outdated by onrushing realism. There is a sampling...