Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind when they dropped around to the empty Chadds Ford studio of Artist Andrew Wyeth, 47, last Oct. 31. Not a treat but a treatment was what they needed, for they slashed Wyeth's 18th and 19th century costume collection, broke lamps and sculpture, smeared his walls with paint. Wyeth refused to prosecute. Instead, he invited the vandals around for a talk, forgiving the eight who showed up last week when they apologized and promised to do what they could to repay the $2,000 worth of damage. "I am left feeling saddest," said Wyeth, "about the failure...
...Broken tape recorders in the Boylston Language Lab sit for three weeks before being fixed. The electrified desks in the lab give shocks through dents in the insulating paint...
Yalies who think that happiness is a can of blue paint and a paint brush are going to have a sad weekend...
Last year six Yalies painted "BEAT HARVARD" in blue letterss six feet high on the columns in front of Widener Library. The cost of water-blasting the paint off the columns exceeded...
...result of the war, Beckmann had given up painting as an "unpardonable luxury," confining himself to the production of some twenty-four etchings. Toward the end of his convalescence, however, his passion to paint returned. The war had provoked in him a scream of horror, a scream of fear, a scream of rage, a scream of protest--a violent screaming of the senses which could only be resolved with colors and shapes on canvas. His painting of the "Descent from the Cross" (1917), showing the removal of a hopelessly abject and skeletal Jesus by two men grimacing with revulsion, sums...