Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will also get the city to sink a lot of money into an electronic-brain control system, which scans traffic flow by radar and switches street signals accordingly. Barnes likes well-marked lanes. When he wants one, he creates it right away with improvised dividers made out of used paint cans; markings and concrete follow later on. He is also a stickler for overhead traffic signals for every lane (and not just every street corner...
...Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor John Held, argues that the Cleveland painting has the sort of minor details-the birds, the elaborate ironwork on Diana's lance, the foreground foliage-that "are not infrequently added by copyists to make their pictures more superficially interesting." In one matter Getty's canvas is more detailed: Diana, who is barelegged in Cleveland...
...superficial resemblance to express its life movement and very breath. It is said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself violently to the task, the criterion of art is met only when the artist...
...imperial collection is representative of Chinese art as a whole, for the emperors had as their command the leading painters and artisans of the day. The examination system which supplied the government with its officials bred gentlemen well versed in Confucian classics, calligraphy and poetry as well as painting. The majority of Chinese paintings are the works of such Confucian gentlemen, most of whom worked in the court, though some retreated from the capital to paint in seclusion...
...although decently robed in new chintz ("There was so much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President Hoover Greets the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at the White House...