Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pierre Bonnard called himself "the last impressionist," but in the throes of creation he was more like the first action painter. He would tack a huge canvas on a wall and, striding back and forth, begin jabbing spots of paint in a dozen places. After days of vigorous work, a nude emerged here, a still life there. Then he cut the paintings apart, stretched them into tambourines of jin gling color...
...Professor Feeley, "has to do with something that has presence but isn't unduly urgent, that brings you to it rather than projects itself upon you." His sensuous colors don't scream for attention, but they are thoroughly seductive once they get it. Fifteen works in plastic paint on unsized canvas. Through...
...consider Malraux a minister, but a visionary," said Chagall. Once commissioned, he began with pastel sketches the size of dinner plates, then larger cartoons, which he transferred onto canvas at the Gobelin tapestry studios. To cover the 2,153-sq.-ft. circle, he used 440 Ibs. of paint and applied every bit by his own hand. The canvas was glued to the polyester panels and lifted into place. Chagall, who is 77, touched up the joints, sweating atop a 70-ft. scaffold. The whole job took him a year-and the Russian-born artist gave the masterpiece to France...
...like Columbus sailing for a certain Indies," says Dr. Charles Walton, research vice president. "He didn't find the one he set out to find, but he did find a pretty good one." At 3M, researchers have gone from ordinary tape to reflecting tape to reflecting "paint"-and from that to a new liquid called Velvet Coating, which absorbs light and is useful for glare-proofing signs. One tinkering scientist...
...secret was fighting firewater with firewater. The frontiersmen became indistinguishable from the Indians in their drinking habits, their beaded buckskins, and war paint. If anything, says Dale Van Every in the fourth and final volume of his Frontier People of America, the paleface invaders were "morally more savage than their Indian victims." On one occasion, a trapper found rivals following him to learn the most lucrative beaver streams. His solution was to lead them through the country of the Blackfeet, who ambushed and dismembered the rivals' leader...