Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the exhibit also contains a large number of Cassatt's signature portraits of young children, often painted together with their mother or nurse. Unlike so many other portraits of children, from the Renaissance through her own time, Cassatt's children actually look like children. Unlike previous painters, she does not paint children with adult facial expressions and proportion. Perhaps best among these paintings is the well-known "The Child's Bath" of 1893, which displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly...
...fabric covering the entire stage and lifted to various heights at different places by cables. Throughout the piece, cables were raised and lowered, and the dancers moved under the fabric. The stage was lit with bright orange light, and the dancers costumed in nude colored unitards, grass skirts, body paint, headbands and feathers. The atmosphere and movement was very tribal, primitive, fast paced and sexual. Despite the primitive appearance, the choreography still has its roots in classical ballet, which resulted in a unique effect...
...wizened adults who all offer trite commentary on the book's constant effort to present deep and soul-searching questions. Perhaps the most ridiculous characters are the two men: Professor Bartleboom, who tries to measure the end of the infinite sea, and Plasson the painter who tries to paint where the sea begins. As Bartleboom combs the beach with his measuring stick and Plasson paints on a white canvas with seawater, the reader can only laugh at Baricco's overly solemn attempts at symbolism. Of all the characters, Ann Deveria has the greatest potential for sparking the reader's interest...
...beautiful, but I would hazard that the former are the sensitive ones while the latter are the bitches. I win points for preceding that, take away her glasses and overalls and that ridiculous wig weighing her down her entire comportment, Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), the single-minded and paint smattered and object of gamble will bloom into "all that...
...paint Albert as a good guy who's only human, but Sprewell as Grandson of Sam, is unjustifiable in a society that measures justice not by action alone, but by accountability. The only ambiguity in my mind is whether the difference in acceptance of these two men results from racism, sexism or both...