Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cincinnati-born Dine hit the Manhattan scene only three years ago, but his name is one to reckon with in avantgarde circles. Like a number of other rebels against abstract art, he began producing art not out of paint and canvas, but out of everyday objects. "I loved the city." he says, "I loved seeing so much being discarded. Every time you turned a corner, you'd see in the next trash can some wonderful piece of sculpture.'' So Dine became a member of the "found object" school-a group dedicated to the proposition that many...
...ensuing takeover will create the tenth largest industrial complex in the world and the second largest outside the U.S.,* with assets of $3 billion, 162,000 employees in Britain and more than 52,000 abroad. The combined company would control some 25% of Britain's production of paint, more than 50% of its plastic film, and 90% of its output of man-made fibers. Overseas the firm would do business through a maze of satellites in 40 countries, including a $10 million Courtaulds viscose plant near Mobile, Ala., chemical companies in six South American and twelve Asian countries. Presiding...
...abundantly clear that the artist is no court sycophant. It reminded me of Oliver Cromwell's roaring rebuke to his 17th century artist, "Paint me as I am, warts...
...stern-faced Cromwell admonished the young painter Peter Lely to "use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it." For the result...
...highway patrolmen started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...