Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.S.S. Bainbridge was steaming up the Yangtze River in 1912 when Commodore Mark Hersey got a desperate message to hurry below. He found a crewman with his fist in a hole in the side of the ship-holding back the Yangtze's waters. While scraping paint, the sailor had punched a hole clear through the tinny sides of America's first destroyer. Recalls Hersey: ''We stuffed a potato in the hole, covered it with concrete and prayed...
...master of catching the subtle whims of nature, and he could bathe the most or dinary scene in poetry. While more fashionable colleagues strained for panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center, in Oshkosh, Wis., displayed 27 Inness paintings, a pleasant reminder of how much magic can be wrung from the gathering of a storm, the first nips of autumn, or simply the coming on of evening...
...matter of fact, he was a bit out of the mainstream. He was a Swedenborgian, a single taxer, a man who would go to just about any lengths to avoid putting on a new suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even dry. Clients who thought that they had bought a harvest scene would find that it had turned into a woodland before it was delivered...
Dribbles appear where they make sense--as foam in a rough surf, or as leaves or moss on birch trees. Scratches too fit in as the birches' smaller branches and twigs. Though frequently each spot of paint is applied with a certain amount of grossness, the composite usually reveals striking unity and conveys a powerful impression...
Whatever his complaint, it doesn't matter. The point is only that Mr. Rutman, along with the man who runs the gallery, is not an artist. Worse than that, people are theoretically going in and paying money for his blobs and craters. Mr. Wickline's artform, which is paint splashed on layers and levels of sand, burlap, and reindeer moss, offers no solution. The titles of his displayed works are "Entourage," "Into Night," "Still Night," "Quiet Harbor," "Impending," "Dusk, Autumn," and "Dawn Spring," all captured by odd strips and lumps of color in black backgrounds...