Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founders of the Bridge were largely self-taught and at first they tended to paint rather alike. They all did carmine-red houses, crimson trees, ultramarine roads, faces that were part chrome yellow and part cobalt blue. They had no liking for the impressionists, who saw a pear in a bowl as having many different shades of green. "For us," says Heckel, "it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl." They also scorned impressionist garden paintings that "could just as well have been shifted a few yards to the right or left in the choice of the scene...
...shooting was over in anticipation of a postwar demand for consumer goods. The company's first product was an electric range (Ignis means fire in Latin), but Borghi switched to refrigerators ten years ago. He has since expanded so fast that his factories continually smell of fresh paint. A stocky, bull-necked man who occasionally strips to the waist and works on a machine in his factory, Borghi relentlessly replaced men with machines, made his company so efficient that it now sells a bigger refrigerator (4.25 cu. ft.) for $95 than it used to sell...
WHEN an Indian artist, full of patriotic feelings after China's attack on India, decided to help raise money for his country's National Defense Fund, he thought of painting a picture of Nehru. And to enhance its value, he resolved to paint it in his own blood...
...this is where the Los Angeles art galleries cluster, and every Monday night a large crowd gathers to go to them. From all over come matrons out for culture, art students, kids on an inexpensive date, a scattering of beatniks. There are even some artists, recognizable by their uniform: paint-splattered jeans, workmen's shirts, big brown belts for hooking thumbs into...
...Cate's lighting and Leigh Rand's scenery utilized the theatre's facilities ingeniously. The first scene, aboard the ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...