Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not paint a face, a rock...
Irreconcilable Appearances. "Painting relates to both art and life," says Artist Robert Rauschenberg enthusiastically. "Neither can be made. I try to act in the gap between the two." His most spectacular feat of gapsmanship was his trend-setting Angora goat with rubber tire. It seems that Rauschenberg was struck by the incongruity of a stuffed goat in an office-furniture store window. He tried to paint the image. No good. But two years later, he laid a canvas on the floor, bought the goat, and set it on top of the canvas with a rubber tire around its middle...
...Machine Gun. Larry Rivers, 42, is the closest thing to an academic 19th century historical painter that the avant-garde can boast. Back in the heyday of abstract expressionism, he did a takeoff on Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, attempting, as he put it, "to paint its drama, pageantry, spectacle and absurdity without political bias...
...another scene, the characters hold a Roman orgy in a little black shack, during which the men pry up the skirts of their women but never actually make love. Bright red paint coats the walls, much discussion of aphrodisiacs takes place, and a fire casts its glow over the would-be lovers. This savage yet inhibited emotion represents the flip side of the new scientific rationality...
...have built a G.N.P. that this year is expected to add up to $460 million, 8% over last year. Bananas still provide $38 million (or 40%) of the country's export earnings, but the highly successful Central American Common Market has stimulated a mushrooming cluster of small industries (paint, synthetic rubber, flour mills) on the Caribbean coast, where Mexican investors soon hope to build a $12.5 million steel mill using native ore and charcoal...