Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notes into reasonable expense accounts. In between times, she keeps busy collecting the photographs that some artists work from, finding background symbols (the insignia for Soviet Admiral Gorshkov's uniform, Feb. 23, 1968; the collection of birth control pills, April 7, 1967), or arranging sittings when our artists paint from life, as they sometimes...
...brilliant banners flap from lampposts. In town, op-art posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...
Flying Constellations and DC-7's brought from Lufthansa, the aircrews change registration numbers on the otherwise unmarked planes from American to Mauretanian as the circumstances require. "We carry our registration in a can of paint," McGuire says, stirring it up with a free hand...
...looking at abstract expressionism, and although it has no difficulty in accepting Kline's premises, it has grown vastly more critical of his output. O.K., the newcomers say, strolling from picture to picture, we all know he was a landmark, a titan, a pioneer. But did he paint good abstractions or bad ones...
...India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most inventive Chinese painters, the wen-jen, or literary men, withdrew from the court, preferring to paint and write poetry for a small coterie in the country...