Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matisse was on the verge of becoming a lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse...
...Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
...heavy debt to his dramatic self-exile to the South Seas. By the time Gauguin arrived in 1891, his style had already been formed, his competence proved; nothing he did thereafter materially changed or improved either. Seeking in a Rousseauean state of nature the simple truths he wanted to paint, Gauguin found instead a culture already changed by a century of Western influences. Papeete, the capital, was any ugly French town. Gauguin's models dressed more decorously than he: when he bathed in the raw, a gendarme fined him for indecent exposure...
...artist. Long an artist's artist who has refused to have dealers and did not allow a one-man show until he was 45, he has emerged only in recent years as a kind of pioneer figure for younger, hard-edge artists. As uncompromising as his paintings, Newman believes that at the very least his Stations are "an expression of my own involvement." Thus stated, they may well also pose the question every artist must answer for himself: Why paint...
Rudolph said that he did not have the materials on hand to paint the necessary crosswalks and would not even receive bids on them until April 29. Even if the materials arrived within ten days after the City signed a contract for the materials and if he used all his men. Rudolph said, the crosswalks could not be completed until June...