Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straws are about to get fatter. A new wave of modems connected to cable TV and digital phone lines promises to replace today's click-and-crawl Internet with point-and-zoom services that instantly paint Web pages on your PC and rapidly download video clips and sound bites. Some cable companies already promise Internet access at speeds as fast as 3 million bits per second (BPS)--50 to 100 times the rate of standard analog phone-line modems. Not to be outdone, telephone companies plan a massive rollout of high-speed digital subscriber lines...
...ellipsis for ironic effect. She struck a perfect balance between flippancy and thoughtfulness, so I knew that she had been checking her e-mail just as a study break, but nevertheless she remembered me. In each e-mail, she managed to describe her day's activities colorfully, paint each person involved vividly and never bored...
...pictures have something else in common: they remind you how Pollock, whom we tend to think of as a web-weaving, linear artist, was also a real colorist, idiosyncratic and original. There is something vulgar about the palette of Blue Poles, with its giddy dance of aluminum paint and hot orange, but it is the kind of vulgarity that fairly seethes with life...
...need to be with these works very long before realizing how feeble a term "drip" is for the ways--the numberless, subtle and improvised ways--Pollock's paint got on the canvas. His public notoriety came in part from public resentment. Real artists lay watercolor washes or put glazes over body color, but this one just spilled liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also...
...would walk around the canvas, throwing paint on it from the edges, and the loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front...