Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house, built in the 1830's, represents a form of Greek revival that may have been peculiar to Cambridge. Except for a couple of paint jobs and the removal of some pillars to the basement of the neighboring Swedenborgian Church, the exterior of the Sparks House remains what it was a century...
...Painters paint on canvas," Conductor Leopold Stokowski once lectured an unruly audience. "We paint our tone pictures on silence. Only you can supply that...
...Painting is my language," says Baruchello, son of an Italian lawyer. Neither pop nor op, his vocabulary is intellectual, full of hints-a Proustian complex of personal remembrance. And he inscribes his nib's nuances as if they were the scientific jiggling track of his own electroencephalograph. "To throw a pot of paint at a canvas is not my language," he says. "Images are like sounds-complicated. We communicate in complicated sounds. I communicate in com plicated images...
...gout, fathered eight children, dabbled sufficiently in diplomacy to be knighted by the King of England, and as a 53-year-old widower married a 16-year-old beauty. His love of life was so consuming that it was amazing that he had any time left in which to paint...
Most vocal was 74-year-old Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. "It seems to me," said he, "that the artist in this country is not protected at all. Nobody takes care of him. He's a kind of black sheep." In the U.S., if a painting clashes with the wallpaper, anybody can paint over it, "even a Cézanne." If the hearing wound up more voluble than valuable, Lipchitz contributed at least one astute observation on why his colleagues feel pushed around. "You have to count with the nature of the artist," said the sculptor. "We are all more...