Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glowing with radiant orange anticollision paint, a U.S. Air Force 707 jet lifted away from Andrews Air Force Base one morning last week and set course for South America. On board was Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon and his 35-man delegation to the vital Alliance for Progress conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay. The delegates carried a rough outline of the shape of the Alliance and a ringing challenge from President Kennedy: "The hopes of millions of people throughout the Americas rest to a very large extent on the success of your efforts." As their jet winged...
...first. Dove painted in the style of Cézanne. But later, he would omit what he called "innumerable little facts" to try for the essence of the subject. Thus he could paint Clouds and Summer (see color) in a way that told much about all clouds and every summer...
Seeking insights, he began with out-sights. "Have been trying to memorize this storm all day so that I can paint it,'' wrote Dove. When memory joined method to produce patterns of color, with representation virtually removed, he started toward a style that a whole generation of modern American artists have since pursued. In 1910 he painted abstractions and called them just that. Dove "found a new way of presenting his feelings for landscape even before the Russian-born Kandinsky ∣Europe's "father of abstractionism" ∣ hit upon a similar method of freeing colors and lines...
...Poland has at least two artists-Jan Lebenstein, 31, whose inch-deep art brut figures are powerful and evocative; and Tadeusz Kantor, 46 (TIME, April 6, 1959), whose impassioned swirls and splashes resemble France's Mathieu and the late Jackson Pollock-as good as any modern currently troweling paint on canvas, plus another baker's dozen far more varied and versatile than most...
...Tuileries Gardens to view the panels. He said: "There is the light of the sky in these windows, and the participation of the good Lord. They have completely transformed my vision. They gave me a great shock, made me reflect. I don't know how I shall paint from now on, but I believe something is taking place. I can't say much more because I am still under their influence...