Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each other's paint-by-number dreams...
...reviewed critically in Ergo: "One can see the show in 10 seconds, the time it takes to walk across the gallery. The pieces do not differ significantly from each other except that in one case the conduct is curbed rather than angular, the shapes smeared in chalk rather than paint, etc. An electrician might want to take a closer look at the arrangements of the wires and junction boxes, but I don't think many others would want to bother...
Dine's works during these years are theatrical and iconoclastic. Paintings like Black Bathroom #2, in which a china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of many of the works of this period is a keen sensitivity to and enjoyment of the sensuous feel of paint and the manipulation of brush and pencil. This sensitivity takes the form of subtle relationships between line, tone and texture in his graphic works...
Even the press box, that most sacred of all places, was peeling. Actually, it had recently been covered with a fresh coat of blue paint, but there were no signs warning anybody, and if you hadn't already noticed, blue paint and gold corduroys just don't make it. You feel like the pen in your left pocket has just leaked, and this time, it wasn't even your fault...
...water, which can hold the heat for as long as three sunless days. The system provides between 50% and 75% of Evans' home heating requirements. Alden and Margaret Krider of Manhattan, Kans., have fashioned their own solar collectors from discarded aluminum printing plates, storing solar heat in discarded paint cans filled with water. They are delighted with the results. Says Krider: "Every 1,000 cu. ft. of gas I don't burn now is 1,000 cu. ft. that I or someone else can have in the future...