Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to paint the track left by human beings-like the slime left by snails." Francis Bacon says this evenly, not trying to shock, but not joking either. His canvases seem to many to be ghastly views into torment,half-decomposed portraits of things better left unpictured. But no one denies their power: put up last week in a big show at the Tate Gallery, they hit London like a slap in the face with a hunk of raw meat...
...throng of young men in black and red war paint charged drunkenly through the explosions and drifting smoke. But for all the smell of gunpowder and the rockets' red glare, Vientiane was not being stormed by the Communist Pathet...
...artists take entirely different approaches to their work. Broderson, who learned much from painting abstractions -"surfaces, various ways of using paint and the like"-starts a picture with only the vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with...
...live in Darien. Novelist Stone believes firmly in the outlandishness of the usual. An eagle grounds itself in disgust after colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant brownstones that he has a nervous breakdown. The most helpless, indomitable. charming ragamuffin of the lot is Leroy, a young Negro...
Mystery & Universality. In a flurry of experimentation. Braque produced the first paper collage, mixed sand into his paint to achieve new textures, introduced lettering into his pictures to suggest themes of everyday life. He was so inventive, in fact, that Picasso began to refer to him as "Vilbur." after the American Wilbur Wright. After World War I. in which he was badly wounded. Braque became more contemplative. His new paintings were relaxed: the rigid geometry, finally uncaged, became fluid...