Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallery window, Murphy discovered the cubist masters. He took art lessons from Diaghilev's designer, Natalia Goncharova, who would not let him paint anything recognizably real. Then he began to follow his own bent, meticulously rendering real objects in a bright, orderly manner. His first painting, Razor, done in 1922, was a heraldic crossing of a safety razor and a fountain pen below a matchbox, backed up by angular cubist meanderings. Another painting, 6 ft. by 6 ft., showed giant watchworks. Portrait detailed Murphy's foot and its inky imprint, three true thumbprints, and a prototype profile...
...allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane, took him four months to paint...
Although there were so few pro-Goldwater cars that it is hard to analyze their colors, it was nevertheless obvious that they were quite different from their Democratic counterparts. Black, or a combination of black and red, navy blue, and light green paint decorated eight of the ten cars; the other two were beige and grey...
...oldest of the flicker boys. Years ago he bashed away at abstract expressionism, but, says he, "never convinced myself that the gesture I was making had much significance." Then he learned that he could make people see colors that, in fact, he did not paint. "I use optics," says he, "as a means to an end that is bigger-in short, a good painting. Optics is a tool, as perspective once...
Such was his fame in England that Canaletto's patrons persuaded him to stay there and paint their murky land. His precise, atmospheric views of London, painted in the 1740s and '50s, helped shape English landscape painting, lured later artists such as Turner and Whistler to Venice to seek new understanding of light and water. But the essential music of Venice, if not its counterpoint-sun-stippled plazas, majestic palaces, bustling, brightly clad people-always escaped them. In later life, painting steadily until his death in 1768, Canaletto essayed fanciful variations on his theme with almost surreal capriccios...