Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAINTING Triump of the Clumsiest In the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the canvas with such vehemence that on one occasion he dis located his thumb. A model who posed for him never forgot the experience...
After Lyndon Johnson called Peter Kurd's portrait of him "the ugliest thing I ever saw," most people assumed that the Johnsons and the Hurds had reached a parting of the artistic ways. Not so. To celebrate their last anniversary, L.B.J. gave Lady Bird a painting by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, 60, Peter's wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously...
...1960s, several young artists -most notably Andy Warhol and California's Bruce Conner - have abandoned the paint tube for the film can, leading their fans to hail the underground cinema as the birth of "a new art form." Rebirth would be more like it. The first artists to experiment with film were the Dadaists and surrealists in the 1920s, including Duchamp and Man Ray. The most inventive of the lot was a film maker who, as an artist, is all but unknown...
...that were not enough, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, blew up his own storm on the eve of the Games by demanding that the Alpine competitors paint out the trademarks on their skis. The skiers refused-after all, they get their equipment free from the manufacturers. Eventually, the argument ended in compromise: the competitors agreed to take their skis off before posing for photographs...
...stars with Richard Burton and plays an officer of the U.S. Rangers (unshaven and slit-eyed, of course) fighting Nazis in the Alps. That film will make him $500,000 or so. After that, he will take home $600,000 from Alan Jay Lerner's western musical, Paint Your Wagon...