Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were done by men. The men are signified by objects such as musical instruments and bottles. None of the women stare out at the viewer. Even Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl, which is the only complete frontal portrait in the show, has eyes covered with aquamarine paint, making her eyeslits seem like precious stones. As girlish as she looks, she seems on the verge of womanhood. Picasso's Woman in a Turkish Costume dissects the sitter and renders her face with the same ostentation as her costume...
Manet thought "the most wounding insult that can be made to an artist" was to be called a history painter -- but he wanted to paint history too, though of a more recent sort: the killing of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian; and the battle between two Civil War ships, the Alabama and the Kearsarge, in French waters. The latter came out as a sort of imaginary journalism, rapidly painted to catch the urgency of a moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical...
...much the decision to paint the world "as they saw it" that made Impressionism; it was the way of painting it, which came out of Manet and reached its most brilliant expression as color in Monet. Manet perfected a graphic style in which the half tones that offered smooth transitions between high light and deep dark were suppressed; hence the critics' complaints of sketchiness and flatness. But this engaged the eye more, forcing it to assemble continuity from extremes of light and dark...
...Exposure to paint thinners and other solvents may cause a temporary loss of smell, memory or color vision as well as problems with maintaining balance. In some cases the toxic effects on the liver and kidneys are permanent, even after the offending solvents have been removed...
...Spokane, comes across like Ward Cleaver and punctuates his campaign speeches with such cardigan-elbowed jibes as, "I don't want to be the Speaker. I want to be the listener." And while he respectfully and boyishly refers to the Speaker as "Mr. Foley," his hard-edged campaign ads paint the incumbent as the symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. As Nethercutt spokesman Terry Holt puts it, "Foley is running against a political environment...