Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world maps showed the West in blue, Communism in red. Maybe red is all that he will need. Now he can scratch out the blue for Cuba and Laos and paint them red. GEORGE P. WALKER Center Point, Texas...
ANOTHER artist this week joins the small group (about 80 men over the past 38 years) who have painted a TIME cover. This is Joe Jones's first magazine cover, but his is a name well known among gallerygoers. St. Louis-born, Jones hit the art world in the '30s as an angry proletarian painter with an oft-quoted ambition: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls." But even then he was also painting Midwestern wheatland themes, and he soon changed his politics, his subject matter and his style of painting. Then came...
TIME asked Jones to paint his own impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek...
...black rebels have given the Portuguese provocation enough for savagery. Working in bands of 20 to 30, the rebels paint their faces red to make themselves "invisible," smoke marijuana for "bullet proofing," wear their trousers inside out as a means of identification on hit-and-run raids. Intent on terrorizing whites indiscriminately, they are not content just to kill; they also mutilate, plucking out eyes, severing hands. Altogether, the rebels are estimated to have killed some 600 Angolan whites. Last week the Portuguese, who all along have claimed that the revolt was not spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported...
Although the general public knows little about the art of bathroom painting, connoisseurs know that the best men in the field like to start early. The real artists are careful about the materials they use, too. With a cunning rarely equalled in recent Harvard history, a special variety of low-grade fish oil was included in the paint mixtures...