Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during his unsuccessful argument for no bail on August 11, Lawson tried to paint Lee as a model citizen. He said Lee participated in many service-oriented activities at Harvard, such as the Big Brother program and working in Lamount Library and Memorial Church...
While students and faculty here respected him, friends and associates paint a portrait of a deeply troubled person with a peculiar habit for lying and getting into trouble...
...suggest city kids' spraying their aggressive colored tags all over subway cars and buildings. It wasn't bound up with the seizure and degradation of public space. It was, so to speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed up by mixing it with earth but then accelerated by a nervous, hairy...
Through his paintings trickles a current of double nostalgia -- on the one hand, for the closed-off "heroic" possibilities of Modernism and, on the other, for the ancient Mediterranean world, experienced at a remove by living in modern Italy. Love (or its facsimile) among the ruins. Twombly will insert "dirty" bits in a painting -- a little graffiti-style penis, odd smears of paint with the look of dried sperm -- in the hope they will enhance some sense of a Baroque cityscape -- but much of the time, they...
Basketball? See Pete Carrill's Princeton. They pass, they look, they pass, they pass again, they back-door somebody in the paint for a layup and win by averaging barely 60 points a game--all the excitement of watching brain surgery performed, and without even any of the blood...