Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biological mountain: swollen thighs and belly, pubic ravine, breasts like boulders, their stretch marks and blotches half- echoing the surface texture of the girl's cloth. The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass like cream with gravel in it. For in his own way Freud has done (in this picture and others) what Velazquez did: assimilate the life of the subject to the life of the paint surface and of each gesture held in it. Very few painters can do this...
Then, around 1958, Freud took to using stiffer brushes -- hog hair, not sable -- that forced broader and more pictorially solid shapes into the paint with which he depicted flesh, helping him compose the body's structure in terms of twisting and displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved...
...Crimson capitalized on its size all afternoon, dominating the Catamounts in the paint. Rankin, freshman Kyle Snowden (13 points) and sophomore Terrence Mann (10 points, nine rebounds) their way down low, seemingly converting layups at will on its way to a 58.7 percent performance from the field...
...maybe you would violate the most sacred of Harvard's regulations and paint fluorescent pink murals on the walls...
...class used paint consisting of turpentine, Damar varnish and linseed oil, according to Leonie J. Gordon, an administrative officer in the department ofVisual and Environmental Sciences...