Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students don't take spray paint to Harvard's ivy and red brick, but in bathroom stalls and secluded study carrels closet graffitists make their statements...
Juxtapositions II: Paint and print Expressions--Through Feb. 28. By ten women artists from the Boston area. Schlesinger Library...
Painterly Reproductions: The Difficult Art of Expressing Paint in the Monochrome Print--Through April 12. Fogg Art Museum...
...result, the image hovers strangely between the inorganic, mineral fixity of stone and the fluid life of paint. The banner on its pole outside the tent and the whipping linear rhythms of Judith's head ribbon seem blown by an actual wind. And the undercurrent of strangeness is increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your...
...Portrait of a Man, circa 1470-75, the folds of the red costume have the density of marble, the eyes are gray agate, and the net of lines around them and on the brow is described down to the point where it merges with the craquelure of the paint itself...