Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fresh Paint. This ringing tocsin for revolt was not answered in somnolent Portugal. Under Salazar, the rich are satisfied and the poor are at least quiet. The law requires that every house in Portugal be painted every two years, but the government seems unconcerned whether the same houses contain running water or electric lights. A onetime professor of economics, Salazar often speaks of "the grace of being poor," and has outlawed strikes, lockouts and "similar irregularities." The wages of skilled workers reach a high of $2.80 a day. There are six different kinds of national police, and the armed forces...
...great day was at hand, and all seemed ready. The White House and the dome of the Capitol shimmered under fresh coats of paint. Timetables had been meticulously planned; the parade, for example, would last two hours and 46 minutes, not a moment longer. The invitations had gone out; and from all the states of the Union swarmed victorious Democrats, rushing jubilantly from party to party, Andy Jacksons in black ties...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
...Dutch figurative painter, Klein took to art after briefly trying his hand at training race horses in Ireland and then at professional judo wrestling in Japan. He found that working with brushes was too finicky, so he bought himself a paint roller that could cover even the biggest canvas in a trice. In time, when rollers proved a bore, he hit upon the idea of smeared models, whom he calls "living brushes." With this technique, Klein does not have to touch the painting at all: "I want to be the umpire between the canvas and the animal, vegetable and mineral...
...Nain contemporary, the onetime pastry cook Claude Lorrain, was a classicist, but he followed a far different path than Poussin took. He was less interested in ideas or subject matter than in the wonders that nature poured out all around him. He was the first Frenchman to paint similar scenes at different times of day, the first to record the fickle moods of light. His Seaport is as well ordered as a classical painting should be, but there is a quiet sadness about the yellow daylight and a heavy loneliness about the dancing...