Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of this experiment were unambiguous: the boy decided that his talent was less than his standards demanded and that his standards demanded and that his desire to paint was far from insatiable. Once having rejected a career as an artist, William seldom looked back. His subsequent work always bore the mark of acute sensory perception and aesthetic imagination, but his artistic flair was sub-ordinated to his moral and metaphysical concerns...
...taught me to think 'Why not?' " Since Rauschenberg is considered to be a pioneer in pop art, this is probably where the movement went off on its particular tangent. Why not make art out of old newspapers, bits of clothing, Coke bottles, books, skates, clocks? "A painting is not art simply because it is made of oil and paint or because it is on canvas," Rauschenberg argues. He also uses waste materials because, with Manhattan being torn down and built up, "this is our landscape, and I love...
...self-declared movement, pop art is more than just paint and plaster; it is also a clangor of nonmusic, a babble of tape recorders, and the "happening," a nonplay which requires one or two small rooms and the tolerance of the spectators. In short, a branch of show business. Last week Washington, earnestly aspiring to be the new cultural capital of the U.S., was deep in something called "The Pop Art Festival," staged by the Washington Gallery of Modern...
...already warring with glass. Fiber-foil cans cost 15% less than tin-plate cans, are lighter and usually can be opened with less effort. They have already moved into the motor oil can market once dominated by tin plate, and their makers confidently plan to use them for coffee, paint, beer and soft drinks...
...from making millions by marketing the oddments that other people throw away. To the steelmakers they sell rust-worn barbed wire from the farms, torn-up tracks from the railbeds and used appliances tossed out by housewives. They move mountains of junked cars into grasping incinerators that burn off paint, cushions and fixtures, then through presses that crumple each once pampered body into a hunk of tortured steel no bigger than a TV set. Because scrap goes back into the steel pot in a constantly revitalizing life cycle, almost every new car uses some steel from Model T days...