Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sand & Paint. There is an unexpected mood of joy in most of Kandinsky's work, almost an air of frivolity in some of it. Color, which he seemed to have made an honest effort to subdue in some of his early abstractions, keeps churning to the surface, and in the end he surrendered to it completely. He never ceased to experiment: one painting in the show, Accompanied Contrast (1935), has sand mixed in with the paint on the canvas. Later he seemed to be looking into a world of microscopy; his (Surroundings) (Environment) of 1936 resembles a blown...
Ancient Surfaces. A great borrower and transplanter, he confesses that he often takes a detail of a building here and adds it to another there. In all his paintings there is a loving treatment of ancient surfaces: tattered plaster, ravaged brick, gnarled woodwork, scabrous paint bespeak his affection for old, well-used places and things. But sometimes Sivard gets so carried away in his kindly lampoons that there is a detail too many, and the end result is no better than a merely slick magazine cover. His most impressive paintings are from that unpainted and usually humorless terrain, Russia, which...
...self-assured way of speaking, Brooks is far more concerned with shapes than with colors. "I do feel color, but I don't think consciously about it," he says. "I may start out with a vague idea of a color I want, but it just develops as I paint." His canvases have a flat quality that underscores his almost complete preoccupation with surface; the occasional effect of depth, as in his Resalns (see color), comes simultaneously with a consciousness of what lies on the plane of the canvas itself. "I like to have a progression across the canvas...
Remembering the Future. Brooks is a sage man who does better than most in trying to articulate the sometimes manic-expressive business of abstract art. Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting, he says: "The crucial thing for a painter is getting to the point where he can maintain some sort of pictorial balance between alertness and dumbness, where he is thinking but it can't be classified as thinking...
Considering the expense involved, truck buyers are a lot fussier about what they buy than car buyers, and they get results faster. Ford and Chevy offer 1,000 different variations, and almost every truck turns out to be custom-made. G.M.C. dutifully mixed batches of lavender paint until a florist customer was satisfied, and has bowed to truck owners' new efforts to keep drivers comfortable by putting in reading lamps over adjustable bunks in sleeper cabs. White's Autocar division recently put in a seat with 16 different adjustments that give the driver a choice...