Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just for good measure. Vellucci continued, he plans to rent a hearse paint on it "We're headed for New Haven to to bury Yale," and parade through the streets of Cambridge before leaving for The Game...
Violent disruption of demonstrations in New York City and Berkeley, Calif, occurred on Saturday. In New York, hecklers threw a can of red paint at participants in a parade of 10,000 people that marched up Fifth...
Edward Ruscha, 27, limns with the same T-square edge precision that is the trademark of hard-edged pop. But to him, "Andy Warhol's soup cans are too syrupy sweet." Ruscha prefers to paint what he calls "facts," words, corporate symbols or even filling stations, which he sees as machine monuments in the Western scenery, way stations in the wilderness. His compositions evoke a soaring into space just like a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the desert. The exaggerated imagery is commonplace, but the sense of dynamic movement is purely West Coast...
...film, Agony limits itself to those tumultuous few years when the reluctant Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) was commissioned by the warrior Pope, Julius II (Rex Harrison), to forsake his beloved marble and paint the frescoes for the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets...
Motherwell proved a fast learner. The great lesson "of what modern art is all about," he believes, was first stated by French Symbolist Poet Stéphane Mallarmé in 1864: "Paint not the thing, but the effect it produces." For the young Motherwell, the easiest way to set this down was by combining oil, gouache and pieces of torn paper. Today his elegantly signed collages-which often combine pieces of French Gauloises cigarette packages, an envelope from his English bookseller or a football ticket-sell for from $3,500 to $5,500, are considered by connoisseurs the most elegant...